Schrödinger's Cat: Debunking the Myth 🐱

The Schrodinger's cat experiment is the source of many arguments in quantum mechanics, mostly because that was the whole point of it.

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SOURCES

Schrodinger's Paper:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01491891

Feynman Quote:
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/messenger.html
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/fml.html#6

Larger Scale Quantum Experiments:
https://news.mit.edu/2019/single-quantum-vibration-normal-1007
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-quantum-nature-large-masses.html
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-big-can-the-quantum-world-be-physicists-probe-the-limits-20210818/
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TIME CODES

00:00 Intro
00:47 Schrodinger's Cat History
01:49 Scale vs Isolation
03:15 What is a Quantum Observation?
05:00 Human Intuitions Don't Work
05:32 Why is Quantum Mechanics hard?
06:04 Closing Thoughts
06:21 Featured Comments