I was thinking about Schrodinger’s Cat and how I don’t
really understand Schrodinger’s Cat. It’s something that I am aware of and
vaguely conscious of, but I do not understand. This is not necessarily
unsurprising or uncommon, being not a quantum physicist and all. I decided to
do a little bit of research and stumbled upon a TED Ed video that explains
Schrodinger’s Cat through animation. It is a very short video and probably does
not even scratch the surface of what’s going on with this cat thing, but it did
help me understand more than I did previously. It did more for me in a 4-minute
animation than an hour of reading did. Not to say there’s no value in reading
about quantum mechanics, but the power of a visual is pretty substantial in
understanding things that are completely out of your wheelhouse. The narrated
video says a lot of the same words that I was reading and not grasping. The
combination of words plus visuals was what made things make some sense. Visuals
are able to convey things that words are just not capable of on their own. They
say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and I guess that’s true when it
comes to quantum cats.
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