Thing is that Schrödinger would never put a cat in a box to test his thought experiment because Schrödinger knows that macroscopic objects don't really adhere to quantum mechanics principles because of decoherence.
He only proposed the cat thing to show how ridiculous it is to apply quantum mechanics to macroscopic objects. Unfortunately the sarcasm was missed and it became the standard example of quantum mechanics.
Rather, it became the standard example of every event that has 2 outcomes, regardless of quantum mechanics is even applicable or not. It was a complete failure.
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Thing is that Schrödinger would never put a cat in a box to test his thought experiment because Schrödinger knows that macroscopic objects don't really adhere to quantum mechanics principles because of decoherence.
He only proposed the cat thing to show how ridiculous it is to apply quantum mechanics to macroscopic objects. Unfortunately the sarcasm was missed and it became the standard example of quantum mechanics.
Rather, it became the standard example of every event that has 2 outcomes, regardless of quantum mechanics is even applicable or not. It was a complete failure.
He “placed” uranium in that mind box
Which was the more important point.
If the microscopic particle subject to superposition was the catalyst for the cat's death, then too isn't the cat's fate in both realities?
Of course he was being intentionally absurd
Do you want collapsing wave functions? Because cats how you get collapsing wave functions.
Room temperature is another great way to get decoherence
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