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What Is Shrodinger's Cat

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Schrodinger’s cat is an experiment that was created when he a noticed a problem with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics which states that objects in a physical state exists in all possible configuration, but observing the system force it causes the systems to break down and forces the object to one state. This experiment consisted of a cat, Geiger counter, radioactive substance, hydrocyanic acid and a hammer. Schrodinger arranged and experiment that a cat is trapped in a steel box, along with the Geiger counter. He also placed minuscule amount of radioactive substance, which has a chance of decaying in the course of one hour therefore there is a 50% chance of the instrument detecting the radioactive substance. If the Geiger

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