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What Is Schrödinger’s Cat?
Schrödinger's cat is the most famous image in quantum physics, and it is almost always told backwards. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger did not claim a cat could be alive and…
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Quantum Decoherence: Why the Quantum World Looks Classical
Nothing in quantum mechanics forbids a cat from being alive and dead at once. Superposition has no size limit written into the theory, and yet nobody has ever seen a…
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