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A Novel Idea: What Schrödinger's Cat Can Teach Us About Quantum Mechanics

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult, High School Age
Date: 4/15/2015
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:00 PM
Description:
 If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour, what will be the state of the cat when that time is up? In 1934, Erwin Schrödinger proposed that, in the instant before you open the box, the cat occupies both states at once---dead and alive---in a blur of probability. Author Ruth Ozeki uses this paradox of Schrödinger’s cat in her novel, along with quantum mechanics and Buddhist concepts of time, in unexpected and sometimes mind-bending ways. In this talk, physicist Wendi Wampler helps us unravel and understand Schrödinger’s Cat and what it can teach us about quantum mechanics.


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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: Brooks Room
Contact: Tina Walker Davis
Contact Number: 541-312-1034
Presenter: Wendi Wampler
Link: Know More about Quantum Theory