Quantum Computing: Things I Thought I Understood — But Didn’t

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<span>H</span>ave you ever heard a joke like “Once Schrodinger’s cat walks into a bar and doesn’t.” and then wondered what does it mean? Let’s briefly talk about Schrodinger’s cat experiment, it’s a thought experiment where you put a cat in an aluminium box and place cat food mixed with poison in it. Now close the box. What would happen to the cat? Cat might eat the food and die because of poisoning or cat may not be hungry and would still be alive. Unless we open the box we would not come to know anything about the cat, so till the box is closed the cat is dead and alive at the same time.