[I wrote this for my work lunch group after listening to David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications. It seemed like a good first post here after a long time lurking.]
Shrödinger’s cat is the famous thought experiment that illustrates the essential weirdness of quantum mechanics. That an object in a superposition simultaneously exists in multiple states that only resolve when an observer measures the object. The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics bites the bullet of quantum measurement by claiming the world ‘splits’ whenever a quantum state is measured, implying there exists a universe where every physical quantum state exists. In this interpretation there is a universe where Shrödinger’s cat... (read 924 more words →)
Well that’s a tad embarrassing. Thanks for pointing it out! I made the edit.