What is the 'SchrÃ¶dinger's cat' thought experiment?
SchrÃ¶dinger's cat is a quantum-mechanical thought experiment, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger, which presents a scenario in which a cat can be simultaneously both dead and alive. SchrÃ¶dinger stated, a cat sealed in a box with poison exists in superimposed dead and alive states until one looks into the box, which forces the dual states into a single outcome.