The Schroedinger’s Cat thought experiment was created because Austrian Physicist Erwin Schroedinger along with the supporters of the EPR (Einstein Podolsky Rosen) paper did not agree with the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Schroedinger’s argument was different from the EPR supporter’s. The reason Schroedinger created the Schroedinger's Cat thought experiment was to show the absurdity of a large object such as a cat behaving the same way as an atom. i.e. an atom being in superposition and a cat being in superposition or being alive and dead at the same time [6].

Erwin Schroedinger was the son of Rudolf Schroedinger and was born August 12, 1887 in Vienna, Austria. As a child, he was very gifted and was given a very good education. After graduation, he enrolled in chemistry and physics at the University of Vienna and pursued unrelated interests in Italian Painting, Botany, Ancient Grammar & German Poetry for several years. He did his doctorate in physics at the University Vienna, though he hated memorizing data and learning from books. In university, his mentor was Fritz Hasenohrl, who was the successor to Boltzmann, a one of the main figures in Quantum Mechanics. After University, he then served as an Artillery Officer for the German Army in World War I. In 1920, Erwin became the assistant to Max Wien and taught at Stuttgart, Breslau and the University of Zurich. He disagreed with Neils Bohr on his Orbit Theory and the Copenhagen Interpretation and thus created Schroedinger’s Cat. In 1927, he became Planck’s successor in Berlin, only to move to Oxford University in England when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. He then shared the 1933 Nobel Prize In physics with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac for the discovery of new forms of atomic theory. In England, he worked at Oxford and Princeton University and moved to Austria to teach at the University of Graz. He escaped to from hostilities in Austria Italy and then moved back to Oxford and then on to the University of Ghent. He died of tuberculosis on January 4th, 1961 [4].