Schrödinger's kitten

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Etymology

From Schrödinger's cat.

Noun

Schrödinger's kitten (plural Schrödinger's kittens)

  1. (informal, physics) Any of several experiments that show the paradoxical effects of quantum mechanics on a small scale, especially one that shows an atom to be in two places at the same time.

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