To me(ow), or not to me(ow). Cat is the question.
- Erwin Schrödinger
OK, lying to you is probably a bad place to start. To be fair, neither Schrödinger nor Shakespeare actually said the above quote. But it does get to the point dear old Erwin was trying to drive home way back in 1935. The 48-year old Austrian was a prominent physicist, and was trying to wrap people’s heads around the idea of quantum mechanics and superposition. His thought experiment was meant to apply the realities of quantum physics to everyday objects, to help demonstrate how amazing what reality actually is at the quantum level.