This question is asked by many of the students that what is Schrodinger’s Cat experiment. Here I will try to give small explanation about Schrodinger’s Cat.
Schrodinger did not have any cat on which he was doing some experiments. It was a thought experiment which explains the concept of probability or possibility. A cat is placed in a closed steel chamber. A flask of poison and a radioactive source which has possibility to decay within an hour is placed inside a sealed chamber. A hammer is held on the flask which is attached to Geiger Counter (Detects radioactive atoms), which broke the flask when Geiger Counter detects single atom. The released poison will kill the cat. Without looking in the box, we cannot sure whether the cat is alive or dead. Cat may be simultaneously both alive and dead, a state known as a quantum superposition, this result is being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. The cat's life or death depended on the state of a radioactive atom, whether it had decayed and emitted radiation or not. Because of we don’t know the exact time of the radioactive emission; we can’t say if the cat is alive or dead. Only after looking in the box we can be sure about the condition of cat. This reflects the question of only when the quantum superposition ends, we can find one possibility. I think Quantum Mechanics simply wants to say that there is always a probability of any event to occur or not to occur. Everything on a quantum level is so uncertain that it says everything is possible. Time affects everything.
