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@Wenis Prinkle, heisenberg's theory was that you can tell the direction a particle is going or the speed it is going but not both simultaneously. Schrodinger's test was to lock a cat in a box and pump in poison. He believed that since nobody could see the cat (which symbolized certain particles) it was simultaneously dead and alive, but once the box was opened, and the cat viewed, reality would rush in and the cat would be either dead or alive (but of course, since it was poisonous gas, the cat was dead)
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@Gay Ninja, Schrödinger's though experiment was to place a cat inside a box with a radioactive source, which would release poisonous gas if radiation was emitted from the source. This is determined by the wave function which collapses into one of two states through observation. This means that the state of the cat (dead/alive) is tethered to the wave function of the radioactive source, and therefore exists in a superposition until an observation is made. Schrödinger used this thought experiment to point out flaws in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, namely that large scale objects can not be viewed in terms of quantum mechanics without imposing a paradox. There are many different answers to whether the cat can actually be in a superposition or not, it depends on your interpretation of quantum mechanics. Adding a bit to your explanation 😁
I did not read "suspicion," so I thought the officer was aroused and wanted to check a different trunk.