Einstein & Schrödinger: 4 Truths About Reality Nobody Can Accept

Everyone knows Schrödinger's cat: a cat in a box, alive and dead at the same time. Here's what almost nobody tells you — Erwin Schrödinger invented that cat to mock the idea. He thought it was absurd, and he built the whole thing to show that something had gone badly wrong with the way physicists were thinking about reality. In this video we take apart four myths about the most famous cat in science: what the thought experiment really says, why Schrödinger hated the quantum "jumps" he helped make famous, why no conscious observer is needed to open the box, and the question his cat left open that physicists still can't answer today. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 The cat everyone gets wrong 0:50 Myth #1 — The cat proves something can be alive and dead 3:18 Myth #2 — Schrödinger loved quantum weirdness 5:20 Myth #3 — A mind has to look into the box 7:03 Myth #4 — It's just an old thought experiment 9:10 What is life? Schrödinger's last questions "The total number of minds is just one." — Erwin Schrödinger 🔔 Subscribe to Cosmic Minds for more ideas from the greatest minds in science and the cosmos. 📚 Credits Portraits (Erwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein), 1927 Solvay Conference photo and Watson–Crick DNA model: Wikimedia Commons, public domain Stock footage: Pexels Music: "Fluidscape" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ #SchrodingersCat #QuantumPhysics #Schrodinger #QuantumMechanics #Physics #Science #Einstein #NielsBohr