Schrodinger's Cat

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 Schrodinger's Cat

P.K.Ghatak, MD.

Schrodinger's cat is not like any Persian cat, or even a Felidae domestica. This cat is the subject of a thought experiment that Schrodinger proposed in 1939. It is similar to Einstein's thought experiment of riding a light wave at nearly the speed of light, which came to his mind while looking at the clock tower sitting on his desk at the patent office in Bern.

Schrodinger was trying to prove the central Paradox of the Copenhagen Quantum Mechanics, which states that a particle exists in a wave form, but it does not have a definite location until a measurement of its location is measured. But the process of measurement destroys the wave. Therefore, a particle in a wave is present in all possible positions simultaneously.

In a way like Mahadeva, in the minds of Hindus, as the Creator and the Destroyer at the same time.

Schrodinger asks everyone to imagine placing a cat in a box and a vial of poison which will break and kill the cat, if and when a Geiger counter timer registers radioactive decay, the time of which is unpredictable. The cat at any given time must exist as living and dead simultaneously. If one wants to verify and open the box, the experiment is spoiled altogether.

If a student is interested in Quantum Mechanics, he must pass through this paradox; that is why Schrodinger's cat has reached nearly as talked about as Einstein's riding a light wave near the speed of light.

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