schrodinger's cat was a sort of paradox to try and show quantum theory was absurd, it goes like this.
You place a can in a box with a device that may or may not release an invisible toxic gas, it has a 50/50 chance of going off. His point being you don't know if the cat is dead or alive, thus the cats existence is in an indeterminate state. So the possibility that the cats alive or dead are two different wave forms super imposed upon one another in one box.
Interesting unless you place the cat in a see through box.
Like Eve, are we eating from the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil