The Cat Is Not Alive And Dead
By Bill Jones. Schrodinger’s Cat is said to be alive and dead at the same time, and this classic paradox is a result of Quantum mechanics. This thought caused Schrodinger some difficulty. Quantum Mechanics will cause this difficulty. In 1935 Schrodinger suggested that a cat be placed in a box with a poison that could be released at a random time with a probability of 0.5 in some given time period. If the poison is released the cat will then die. Then after the time period is up, it is impossible to know if the cat is alive or dead without opening the box for observation. Before observation it must be said that the cat is both alive and dead at the same time – because of the laws of Quantum Mechanics. The mathematics of the Quantum theory has been shown to be unusually accurate in pr...