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To: C Kahn who wrote (336)	9/24/1999 8:40:00 PM
From: Akula	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 440

Schrodingher's cat was a thought experiment by a scientist of the same name. It's rather diffucult to explain, but the gist of it was that you set up a system in such a way that a cat in a sealed box has a 50-50 chance of dying in a set time period. Until you open the box, you can't tell if the cat is dead or alive. Until you check, the universe doesn't "decide" which is the case, so the cat exists in both ways. It is simultaneously dead and alive. When you look, one wave form collapses and you see a live or dead cat. It was meant to explain how stupid quantum mechanics is, but it in fact is used to explain a lot about the universe.