Schrödinger's cat in popular culture

It illustrates what he saw as absurdities in the views that other physicists had about quantum mechanics (ideas later labeled the Copenhagen interpretation), by applying them not to microscopic objects but to everyday ones.

The thought experiment presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event.

In 1972 Ursula K. Le Guin learned about it while reading about quantum mechanics for her novel The Dispossessed; Crease credits her 1974 short story "Schrödinger's Cat" with bringing the concept into popular culture.

[3] Works of fiction have employed Schrödinger's thought experiment as plot device and as metaphor, in genres from apocalyptic science fiction to young-adult drama, making the cat more prominent in popular culture than in physics itself.

[8][9] In addition to novels and short stories, Schrödinger's cat has appeared in film,[10][11][12] poetry[13][14] theatre,[15][16] live-action television,[17] cartoons,[18][19][20] music,[21] and webcomics.