The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics Season 1 Episode 10 Wanted Dead and Alive: Schrödinger's Cat
- TV-PG
- April 24, 2020
- 29 min
The most famous paradox of quantum theory is the thought experiment showing that a cat under certain experimental conditions must be both dead and alive. Explore four proposed solutions to this conundrum, known as the measurement problem: the hidden-variable view, the Copenhagen interpretation, the idea that the human mind collapses a quantum state, and the many-worlds interpretation.