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It's a thought experiment in quantum physics. In it, a cat is imagined to be in a box with a vial of poison gas. Whether the vial breaks or not is dependent on whether an atom of an element decays or not.

Schrodinger believed that this showed an interpretation of quantum physics to be invalid or incomplete, as the Copenhagen interpretation would say that the cat could simultaneously be alive and dead at once.

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