Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger devised in 1935 an imaginary experiment to expose one of the consequences of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger raised a system that is formed by a closed and opaque box that contains a cat inside, a bottle of poisonous gas and a device, which contains a radioactive particle with a 50% probability of disintegrating in a given time, So if the particle disintegrates, the poison is released and the cat dies. At the end of the established time, there is a 50% probability that the device has been activated and the cat is dead, and the same probability that the device has not been activated and the cat is alive.
The experiment's paradox is that, while in the classic description of the system the cat will The observer intervenes.
But let's leave quantum mechanics, and the scientific implications of the experiment. The fact is that we have a cat inside a box, and we do not know if it is alive or dead. And we will not know until we open the box. We can start asking ourselves, each of us, if we have any in a box, something that we have not wanted or we have not dared to consider and that we have left there, hidden, in some corner of the house or the heart. We all have one of those cats.
What to do then? We can start thinking about our aspirations, our dreams, what we would like to do in life. How many of these things have we renounced for fear, for comfort, for the judgment of others? Can we afford it? Moreover, do we want to allow ourselves?
We are going to open the boxes, and the cats leave before they all die. By pure probability, at least half of them will be alive. And those living cats (those dreams, those aspirations) will make us also more alive.
