Rizwan Virk

And then when somebody measures it, it's either alive or dead, and we're in one of those states.

That's what it would seem like, right?

Right.

That would be like common sense.

Logical.

Point of view, right?

But what all the physicists have been telling us now for almost 100 years, going back to the 1920s when quantum mechanics first started to get formalized, is that that's not actually the case.

What happens is you have this probability wave.

And that there are different probabilities of the cat being alive or dead.

Now, of course, they weren't talking about cats.

Yeah.

It's a way for somebody to think about this at a high level.

So Schrodinger, who was one of the founders of quantum mechanics through his wave equation, he basically came up with this because he thought the whole idea was ridiculous.

He's like, look, you can't have a cat that's both alive and dead, right?

So this is a ridiculous experiment, except it's become the way in which we explain this weird effect about quantum mechanics.

Right, or they can be in two different states, which could be moving and still, could be alive or dead, or they're really talking about particles.

So then it could be like left rotated or right located or right rotated.

So you've got all these properties, but they can be in different states.

And this is the basis for quantum computing, by the way.

You've probably heard about new quantum computers.