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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Thing is that Schrödinger would never put a cat in a box to test his thought experiment because Schrödinger knows that macroscopic objects don't really adhere to quantum mechanics principles because of decoherence.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He only proposed the cat thing to show how ridiculous it is to apply quantum mechanics to macroscopic objects. Unfortunately the sarcasm was missed and it became the standard example of quantum mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Rather, it became the standard example of every event that has 2 outcomes, regardless of quantum mechanics is even applicable or not. It was a complete failure.

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