What is Schrödinger’s cat probability?
Imagine a box with a cat inside. You also put a device in the box that has a 50% chance of killing the cat after one hour. The box is completely closed, so the only way to know what happened is by opening it. After one hour, you want to know whether the cat is alive, but you do not open the box. Since there is a 50% chance the cat survived and a 50% chance it died, we cannot say for sure what happened. So, until we open the box and check, we treat the cat as if it is both alive and dead at the same time . This may sound strange, but this is how quantum physics explains such situations. This idea is called superposition . Being alive is one possible state, and being dead is another possible state. Because we have no information about which one actually happened, we assume the cat exists in a combination of both states until we observe it.