Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour, what will be the state of the cat when that time is up? Listen as Chad Orzel investigates this thought experiment.

And that reminds me of one of the most awesome tees of all time:

[Ted Ed]