{"id":71128,"date":"2020-05-23T06:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71128"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:04:51","slug":"how-do-quantum-states-manifest-in-the-classical-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71128","title":{"rendered":"How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This episode of space time is brought to you by the information flowing through an impossibly complex network of quantum entanglement, that just happens to mutually agree that you and I exist inside it. Oh, and Schrodinger\u2019s cat is in here too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vSnq5Hs3_wI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In quantum world things are routinely in multiple states at once &#8211; what we call a \u201csuperposition\u201d of states. But in the classical world of large scales, things are either this or that. The famous thought experiment is Schrodinger\u2019s cat &#8211; in which a cat is in an opaque box with a vial of deadly poison that\u2019s released on the radioactive decay of an atom. Quantum mechanics tells us that the atom\u2019s wavefunction can be in a superposition of states &#8211; simultaneously decayed or not decayed. 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Oh, and Schrodinger\u2019s cat is in here too. In quantum world things are routinely in multiple states at once &#8211; what we call a \u201csuperposition\u201d of states. But in the classical world of large scales, things are either this or that. The famous thought experiment is Schrodinger\u2019s cat &#8211; in which a cat is in an opaque box with a vial of deadly poison that\u2019s released on the radioactive decay of an atom. Quantum mechanics tells us that the atom\u2019s wavefunction can be in a superposition of states &#8211; simultaneously decayed or not decayed. So is the cat\u2019s wavefunction also in a superposition of both dead and alive. 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