In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up by ...

For the better part of a century, the world's greatest minds have struggled with the mathematical certainty that objects can be in multiple positions at the same time before something causes them to ...

Schrödinger's Cat, for those unfamiliar, is a famous thought experiment in physics relating to the concept of quantum superposition and the impact of observation on experimentation. The idea is simple ...

In 1935, E. Schrödinger proposed his well-known cat thought experiment suggesting, but not explaining, how a measurement transforms the probable states of an atom into the actual state of a cat (alive ...

Drawing from Schrodinger's cat thought experiment, scientists have built a 'critical cat code' qubit that uses bosons to store and process information in a way that is more reliable and resistant to ...

Most of us have heard of the famous Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment. As it turns out, there’s a variant, and it involves an irresponsible friend, a possibly dead cat, and an even weirder ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? With the right supercooled "refrigerator," researchers could prove Schrödinger's cat ...

Quantum computing uses the principles of quantum mechanics to encode and elaborate data, meaning that it could one day solve computational problems that are intractable with current computers. While ...