Dead ? Alive ? Or Both ?

Today we will know that whether we are Dead ? Alive ? Or Both ? with the help of a theory ! Lets begin, Schrödinger's cat refers to a thought experiment proposed by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. He used it to show the weirdness of the quantum theory. So, what is the quantum theory then ?, The theory says : “Until a particle is measured and observed, it exists in all the states it could possibly be”. So, if there is a probability that, “Particle A” can be in a state at position “x” it will exist in a different state at position “y” and eventually the particle would exist in all its states ! This is called “Superposition” and when the particle is measured and observed the Superposition collapses and the particle starts to exist in a single state unlike before, then you might say “If this is true then it should apply to larger objects since all matter is made up of particles.”. But of course we know that that does not happen. We observe larger objects occupying only one state.

So, Schrödinger came up with an example or a thought experiment to be precise involving a cat. Now what he did is, He imagined that the cat is put in a box with a Radioactive element emitter……which has 50% chance of emitting the element and killing the cat and on basis of this, for normal thinking people the answer would be “Either the cat will die or be alive” but common sense isn’t something that we consider while talking about quantum physics !

Experiments have shown that sub atomic particles behave in strange ways that we don’t observe in larger matter, And based upon this experiment there is a theory called as “Multiverse theory” and it explains this experiment like this : When the cat was in the covered box it was in the superposition of being both dead and alive at the same time but when the box was uncovered, a split in the universe occurred and in “Universe A” the cat was alive while in “Universe B” it was dead !, the implications of this are mind boggling.

Every time there is more than one option in the universe for every situation, in a universe there might be a case where NASA wasn’t able to reach the moon or a world where hitler won WW2. A universe where you might be dead or not been born ! there are many interesting things like this in science, And I will be trying to understand them and Tell them to you ! So, stay tuned to the blog…...Bye until next time.

Sayonara !