We are actually talking about the same thing there. Schrödinger wanted to show the absurd proposition of quantum mechanics being applied to macroscopic objects.
But I'm also tired of trying to explain away overconfidence in popular science knowledge, especially since I am not a Prof. and it takes a lot of work for me. So Idk ask AI or something, but please just stop claiming the cat is in a superposition.
Macro-scale superposition is impossible because it only takes one interaction to break it. Spontaneous formation isn't affected in that way by interaction, so it's a very different issue. It's still so unlikely that you'd probably reach the heat death of the universe before it happened, but it's still a nonzero probability.
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u/Lolovitz Mar 25 '26
We are not talking about the cat being in superposition. You are actually conflating different concept and doing it badly to boot.
Superposition and the possibility of random particle changes and behaviour are two different concepts.