💡 DYK: Schrödinger’s Cat Was a Critique—Not a Celebration—of Quantum Weirdness

Did you know that Erwin Schrödinger introduced his famous cat-in-a-box scenario not to support quantum mechanics, but to criticize its strangeness?

In this legendary thought experiment, a cat is placed in a sealed box with a radioactive atom, a Geiger counter, and a vial of poison. If the atom decays, the counter triggers the release of poison, killing t…