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Schrödinger's cat — @wasolili: While there is a joke-like quality to this thought experiment, it is far from 'a joke to catch those who think they understand quantum mechanics'! Quite the opposite -- it will catch those who insist that the universe is locally real. Superposition, at the root of this paradox, is a basic concept in most interpretations of quantum mechanics. A particle may simultaneously exist in multiple states until there is an observable consequence, at which point it assumes...
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