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Article: Schrödinger's Cat
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Schr
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dinger's Cat
Schr
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dinger's Cat is a famous thought experiment conceived by Austrian physicist Erwin Schr
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dinger (1887
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1961) in 1935 to highlight some of the paradoxes of the quantum picture of the subatomic world if applied to everyday experience. Schr
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dinger was motivated by a paper on the EPR paradox by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen that had appeared earlier that year. Schr
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dinger opposed the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics developed by physicist Niels Bohr (1885
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1951) and others, and Schr
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dinger regarded his thought experiment as a "ridiculous case" that challenged its rationality.
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