Wanted Schrodinger's cat, dead AND alive! Here is a short video that explains the thought experiment of leaving a cat in a box with something deadly and not knowing if the cat survives. It mentions the difference between Schrodinger's thought experiment and Einstein's on the same topic.

Concepts

erwin schrodinger, quantum physics

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Try to answer Schrodinger's original question from 1935, "When does a quantum system stop existing as a superposition of states and become one or the other?"
• Read some of the letters between Schrodinger and Einstein discussing this thought experiment

Classroom Considerations

• Public comments lead to questionable content, so avoid them if possible

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• ELLs benefit from closed captioning in 32 languages

Cons

• The video explains the thought experiment of Shrodinger's Cat, but it doesn't explain the analogy or connection to physics

Common Core

RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4