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Schrödinger’s cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory of superposition, proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. Schrödinger’s cat serves to demonstrate the apparent conflict between what quantum theory tells us is true about the nature and behavior of…

is it like the cat is either dead or alive because you don’t know its condition? Only when you know the condition of the cat is it either alive or dead because then the superposition is gone

wait I still dont get it halp

I think so… something like that, anyway.

The easiest way to explain it is that unobserved things exist in a sort of a flux.. There was a good example on Curiousity: You order some food and it comes on a covered dish. Until you uncover it, there is basically every single possibility under there at once. Then once you open it and observe it, it becomes that one thing (whatever you ordered hopefully!). The idea of parallel universes coincides with this. Once you observe the thing, the theory is that all of the other possibilities don’t cease to exist, they become superimposed on our reality.. like lying sheets of acetate over top each other.

Hope I explained that well, it’s 3am lol.

Oh and the math bears it out: 

(Source: whatis.techtarget.com)