The physicist Erwin Schrödinger created a cat that is neither alive nor dead.It started really just as a thought experiment," says a shaken Erwin Schrödinger about the experiment that went terribly wrong.
"It was not supposed to create a monster. I just wanted to demonstrate that Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics was contradictory," explains Schrödinger about the experiment, where he placed a cat in a closed box with an atomic nucleus, a Geiger counter and a bottle of cyanidgas that was only triggered by the decay of the atomic nucleus.
Caught in the unstable state between life and deathAccording to Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum physics the cat would be in a paradoxical unstable condition in which it was neither alive nor dead. The cat would first end up as either alive or dead when you opened the box and looked.
"So I put it in the box here and started the experiment," says a shocked Schrödinger and points to a metal box that is smashed beyond recognition - ripped apart by small but inhumanly powerful cats claws.
"But before I reach to open the box, I hear a sinister snarl. The moment after the cat has fought himself free and stares at me with its dead, glassy eyes, while its swollen and already rotting cats tongue hangs out of its mouth," he says, and shudders at the memory.
For instead of being either dead or alive the cat was caught in a monstrous intermediate state, which no one had anticipated: Alive and yet at the same time dead.
Haunting theoretical physicistsThe creepy cat escaped the lab shortly after the experiment and has since been observed in several backyards and allotments where it performs the macabre show of assaulting and eating parts of other cats and thereby creates more quantum monsters.
In several cases, large flocks of Schrödinger's cat zombies has haunted theoretical physicists. In these cases they sit outside the scientists' work rooms and scrape the windows with their rotting paws, while they send blank stares and threatening purrs to the physicists and their article collections. Not as a subtle thought experiment, but as a creepy undead.
Several physicists are now considering to barricade themselves in an abandoned house, where they will fight the zombie cats with sawn-off shotguns, chainsaws and incredibly complex mathematics.
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http://rokokoposten.dk/2012/06/02/gal-videnskabsmand-skaber-zombiekat/My question is now: Does this experiment prove or disprove the Copenhagen Interpretation?
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