Shrowdenger’s Qhats – Schrödinger’s cat
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Shrowdenger%27s_Qhat_(Life)
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Shrowdenger%27s_Qhat_(Death)
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:The_Eerem_Tablet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
In the Ruins of Catstantinople beneath Istanboa is the Hall of Secrets. Within the Hall is the Eerem Tablet which contains the location of Eerem Palace. The tablet is guarded by two Qhats.
The Qhats were placed in the Hall as an experiment to answer the ultimate question, “If you seal a Qhat in a box, without going in, how do you know if he’s dead or alive?”
Shrowdenger’s Qhat: “Hehehe! The Ancient Ones wanted to pose the ultimate question – if you seal a Qhat in a box, without going in, how do you know if he’s dead or alive?“
Shrowdenger’s Qhat: “Hehe! The answer is so simple, of course, as long as you understand quantum mechanics – the Qhat is both alive and dead at the same time! Hehe!“
Shrowdenger’s Qhat: “Now, you’ve entered the box and ruined everything. This is forbidden knowledge, of course. You’ll have to join us now! Hehe!“
In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. This thought experiment was devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 in a discussion with Albert Einstein to illustrate what Schrödinger saw as the problems of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
In Schrödinger’s original formulation, a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal radiation monitor (e.g. a Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation implies that, after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other.
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