The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics

Wanted Dead and Alive: Schrödinger's Cat (1x10)

Air date: Apr 23, 2020

The most famous paradox of quantum theory is the thought experiment showing that a cat under certain experimental conditions must be both dead and alive. Explore four proposed solutions to this conundrum, known as the measurement problem: the hidden-variable view, the Copenhagen interpretation, the idea that the human mind “collapses” a quantum state, and the many-worlds interpretation.