If quantum mechanics was right, he argued, it would be possible to create a situation where a cat was simultaneously alive and dead until we opened a box in which it was placed. Whether this could ...

"No one has ever seen an actual cat in a state of being both dead and alive at the same time, but people use the Schrödinger's cat metaphor to describe a superposition of quantum states that ...

But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment ... simultaneously dead and alive. In the case of a qubit, quantum information relating ...

He’s a mystery much like Schrodinger’s Cat ... assume the cat is dead given the circumstances, but until someone opens the box to confirm the status of the cat, the cat is both alive and ...

If the Copenhagen interpretation is correct, then before any measurement has occurred, the atom, and so also the cat, are in a superposition of being decayed/dead and not decayed/alive.

This leads to the troubling conclusion that the cat is in a superposition of dead and alive. "No one has ever seen an actual cat in a state of being both dead and alive at the same time ...

Schrödinger's cat,' a thought experiment in which a cat placed in a box is considered to be alive or dead, was proposed by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in the early 20th century.

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