Schrödinger’s Cat is often used to illustrate the paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics, but does this thought experiment accurately reflect the complexities of quantum theory, or does it simplify them to the point of misunderstanding?
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Schrödinger’s cat was a thought experiment meant to illustrate how non-sensical quantum mechanics is.
To show that it clearly had to be wrong.
Quantum mechanics was, to put it mildly, contentious when it was first postulated.
So it doesn’t just oversimplify a complex theory, it intends to disprove it by appealing to intuition.
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