Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel
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Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum
mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box
with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour,
what will be the state of the cat when that time is up? Chad Orzel
investigates this thought experiment.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Chad Orzel
- Director
- Agota Vegso
- Narrator
- Addison Anderson
