Schrodinger's Cat

Today I will be talking about the Schrodinger’s cat experiment. Imagine there is a cat placed in an enclosed bunker with a bomb that has a 50% chance of exploding. Now, the theory behind this experiment is that until we open up the bunker and look inside, we don’t know if the bomb has exploded and the cat died or if the bomb didn’t explode and the cat survived. So, in a sense, we are forcing nature to make a decision as to what happened when we open it to look for ourselves. Therefore, during the time it is unobserved, the cat is theoretically, according to quantum mechanics, is in a superposition; it is both dead and alive. If we repeated this experiment many times with many bunkers and many cats, then we’ll get the cat living half the time and the cat dying the other half. So, I guess, curiosity does kill the cat. Of course this could lead onto the theory of multiverses and that we just live out on of the different turns of events time takes, but I’m not going to bore you with that. But this then leads onto a bigger question. If this turns out to be true, then who is up there, opening up the bunker of this universe to force nature to make a decision on the course of events?…

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