Schrödinger's cat

I have recently come across this terminology in one of my favorite TV show, "The Big Bang Theory". As much as it sounds funny, it has an irony that no one can deny. To explain the term. Let me go back to intermediate science, where we learned about Schrödinger's wave equation and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, to sum it up this term mostly revolves around wave/matter duality. Enough of science stuff. I too didn't remember all these like you, just Googled it yesterday. (So don't hold it against me that I am a science nerd.) :)

In 1935, Erwin Schrödinger devised an experiment to explain the "Copenhagen Principles". He made a steel box and put his cat inside. He also put a vial of poison, that could break at a random time killing the cat. So Schrödinger explained that until the box is opened, the cat is both alive and dead and only when the box is opened, it can either be alive or dead.

Well Schrödinger was a head-case to even think of such a thing. I am, on the other hand is a bigger nut to even find a resemblance to our life story. :) Laugh at me for all you want, but nobody thinks about the bloody cat. Poor cat. Who becomes the part of the experiment and turns out to be in a precarious position, who has no say in it. He is in the situation just because one day he choose to go near the great scientist and purred.

But again who said life is fair anyway. :(

God rest his soul !!!

P.S: It won't hurt to seach for the actual experiment or the Copenhagen Principles and spend five minutes reading it. Little knowledge and curiosity is never a crime. :)