Quantum mechanics has no ability to give any sort of predictions. Before someone opens the box with a cat in an unidentified condition, the cat potentially exists in two states at the same time. The thought experiment suggests that it can and it is the human observation that finally decides on the outcome. It is a paradox. Can a cat be alive and dead at the same time? So how can we know if it is dead or alive? In both outcomes the box looks exactly the same. However, there is an equal chance none of this happens and the cat is perfectly safe an hour later. In the same room there is a device with radioactive substance that, if one atom decays, would break a flask with acid inside the box, which will most certainly kill the poor animal.

In this hypothetical experiment a cat is placed in a sealed box with no chance of the outer interference. Eleanor Knox suggests we apply it to the world of science. A famous example would be Schrödinger’s experiment, even though it has actually never happened and always existed only on theoretical grounds. We use predictions constantly in our lives. What is known for sure is quantum mechanics helps us to understand the possibility of parallel universes. On a microscopic scale it shows that two objects can exist at the same place and at the same time. A huge amount of modern technology depends on it,” so we simply have no right to ignore it. Unlike the ‘classical’ mechanics that deals with specific objects and time frames, quantum physics looks at probabilities.Įleanor Knox, a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College claims that it is still “the most successful theory that ever existed. The term ‘quantum’, that translates from the Latin as ‘how much’, already hints to the discrete nature of the studied objects. This branch of physics relates to the smallest particles and their interaction with each other. To understand it from a scientific point of view one has to know, and believe in, the term ‘quantum mechanics’, which itself is controversial. Even the physicists who study that science don’t agree with one another on what it actually means. Everything that has ever been imagined by anyone anywhere has a right to exist in a parallel universe. The ‘many worlds’ interpretation was first discussed in 1957 by Hugh Everett and has been experimented on ever since. Franks, a member of Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.įor many of us it is a dream come true. No, we’re not referring to the new season of Stranger Things, that is a real statement by Professor M.R. There is a theory that can stretch one’s reality a bit wider: “If a universe can be imagined, it exists “. However, even in a place of constant axioms and experimentation, discovery and rebuttal, there is a place for pure imagination. Every explicit truth that came to life was first just a thought, a theory in someone’s head that awaited to be proven.

Along with biology, it makes us travel deep inside ourselves and projects us upwards to the stars. In fact, many of us rely on physics to explain the very existence of us as human beings and the universe, of which we are a part of. It is a field that seeks the truth and does not allow any place for uncertainty or illusions. Physics is assumed to be an exact science.

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