Schrödinger’s Cat and Quantum Condensation
Why the Cat Was Never Both Alive and Dead
From the essay
Schrödinger’s Cat is one of the most famous, and most troubling, thought experiments in modern physics. Introduced to expose the conceptual tension between quantum superposition and everyday reality, it continues to be discussed as a paradox of observation and collapse. In this paper, I revisit Schrödinger’s Cat through the lens of Quantum Condensation, an interpretive framework that views particle localization not as a mysterious collapse of mathematics into matter, but as a condensation-like instability of delocalized quantum states triggered by physical interaction.
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