Phoenix Foundation - A Macgyver Podcast

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: December 30th, 1991 --- A potentially illicit urban renewal development threatens the home of an acquaintance of MacGyver's. MISSION: MacGyver is out to uncover the illegal eviction of a series of tenants from a building being sold for a massive urban renewal development. This week's highlights include: Dont ask me to explain how this works, but it seems to. Schrödinger's cat (Theoretical physics) Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead, a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. The thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger coined the