I first came across Schrödinger's cat when I picked up a book while waiting at a friend's house. This was a thought experiment proposed by Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist and one of the fathers of quantum mechanics.
A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with a device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat) containing a tiny bit of radioactive substance. There is equal probability that the material will decay. If it does, the cat is instantaneously killed by poison. Schrödinger proposed that the cat is neither dead nor alive until an observer opens the box and sees the cat as dead or alive.
That is, the act of observing determines if the cat is dead or alive. There is no separation of the observer and what is observed.
Eventually I started reading about quantum mechanics and string theory. String theory evolved into the M-Theory which requires the existence of eleven dimensions, hence the name of this blog.
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