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What can Schrödinger's cat teach us about quantum mechanics? - Josh Samani

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The classical physics that we encounter in our everyday, macroscopic world is very different from the quantum physics that governs systems on a much smaller scale (like atoms). One great example of quantum physics’ weirdness can be shown in the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. Josh Samani walks us through this experiment in quantum entanglement.

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In the version of the Schrodinger’s cat experiment with two cats in which one of the cats always comes out alive and the other cat always comes out dead, we say that the states of the cats are said to be:

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