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One can even construct quite burlesque cases. A cat is shut
up in a steel container, together with the following
diabolical apparatus (which one must keep out of the direct
clutches of the cat): In a Geiger tube [radiation detector]
there is a tiny mass of radioactive substance, so little
that in the course of an hour perhaps one atom of it
disintegrates, but also with equal probability not even one;
if it does happen, the counter [detector] responds and ...
activates a hammer that shatters a little flask of prussic
acid [filling the chamber with poison gas]. If one has left
this entire system to itself for an hour, then one will say
to himself that the cat is still living, if in that time no
atom has disintegrated. The first atomic disintegration
would have poisoned it.