Schrödingers Turner?

The name is based off the thought experiment “Schrödinger’s Cat” by Erwin Schrödinger. The experiment states that if a cat is placed in a closed box with: a flask of poison, a geiger counter with a hammer attached to it, and a bit of a radioactive substance; that if the geiger counter detects radioactivity (that would possibly come from a decaying atom) it would trigger the geiger counter which releases the hammer and shatters the flask and kills the cat. Schrödinger came to the conclusion that in the moment before the box is opened we have to assume that the cat is both alive and dead at the same time, we have to assume this because there is a 50/50 possibility of the cat being dead or alive and there is no way for us to know which, hence why we have to assume this. The purpose of the experiment was to determine when quantum superposition and reality intersect. Quantum superposition is the phenomenon where particles exist is entirely different states at the exact same time unless proven otherwise. They intersect right in the moment of the box opening because we have to assume that cat is dead and alive but then as soon as the box is opened and we now the current state of the cat.  

So I chose this name because sometimes in life it feels like I’m very alive but also that something inside me is slowly dying. So this will be lots of post about life and I how I cope with all the emotions and shitty things that happen. While the name doesn’t exactly match up to the experiment, I just thinks the experiment is so interesting and how it still relates to things we do today. Quantum superposition still very much applies to things today; like our use of the internet, your twitter and my twitter both exist at the same time but on completely different devices but I can only assume that it exists to someone else until I see it in person. Obviously it exists to someone else but we don’t know until we see it in person just like the cat had to obviously be dead or alive, but we couldn’t definitely say until we saw for ourselves. So obviously we’re alive and even it sometimes feels like we might die, we won’t actually know if we are dying until we do. 

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