Why has Schrödinger's Cat, the experiment, not actually been performed?
Last Updated: 22.06.2025 06:36
EDIT - I would recommend checking out Krister Sundelin answer to this as apparently, my understanding of the reason for it was mostly wrong - it was apparently offered to ridicule a specific interpretation of quantum physics. I can’t figure out how to link directly to the answer, so apologies for that.
Because it’s an analogy based thought experiment that uses things at our scale to explain something at the quantum scale.
At our scale, whether the cat is alive or dead depends on the chains of cause and effect it(the cat) has experienced up till that point, not whether it has been observed or not and quantum physics doesn’t suggest otherwise. It is strictly about physics at the quantum scale - below the scale of atoms.