Schrodinger's Cat is Nonsense. Always was.

The Schrodinger's cat experiment is the source of many arguments in quantum mechanics, mostly because that was the whole point of it.

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Schrodinger's Paper:
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Feynman Quote:
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Larger Scale Quantum Experiments:
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TIME CODES

00:00 Intro
00:47 Schrodinger's Cat History
01:49 Scale vs Isolation
03:15 What is a Quantum Observation?
05:00 Human Intuitions Don't Work
05:32 Why is Quantum Mechanics hard?
06:04 Closing Thoughts
06:21 Featured Comments