Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment that was proposed by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.
It goes like this: Imagine you have a cat (or hamster) in a sealed box, along with a device that has a 50% chance of releasing poison gas.
According to quantum mechanics, until the box is opened, the cat is both alive and dead simultaneously. It's only when we observe the cat that we can determine whether it's alive or dead.
This concept is known as superposition, which states that a particle can exist in multiple states at the same time.
Schrödinger's cat was used to demonstrate the absurdity of the principles of quantum mechanics, and to highlight the concept of wave function collapse.
While the thought experiment itself may seem strange and counterintuitive, it's important to remember that it's just a thought experiment, and not a real-life scenario.
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