Work no. 340/00, size 92x100 cm

From Alice in quantumland.   Schrödinger's cat: animal-lover's variant

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Schrödinger's cat: animal-lover's variant
Schrödinger once used the following experiment of thought to describe the precision in which predictions can be made in quantum physics: “Suppose you put a cat in an absolutely tight container in which there is a Geiger counter connected to a hammer hitting in any case of a neutron decay on a  bottle containing hydrogenic acid and breaking it, then you cannot be certain even after an hour whether the cat has died or not. Only by opening the container you will know for sure. As long as the container is locked tight, the cat is at the same time dead and alive.” Another physicist found this a brutal way of description and suggested to fill the bottle with milk instead of the hydrogenic acid.

Work no. 340/00, quantity 92x100 cm