<s>[INST] What happened to schrodinger's cat? [/INST] Schrodinger's cat was placed inside a box with a flask of poison, a small amount of a radioactive material, and a radiation detector. When one atom from the radioactive material decays, the detector releases the poison and kills the cat. One interpretation (Copenhagen interpretation) is that the cat is in a superposition of being both dead and alive, until the box is opened and the superposition collapses into one or the other. Another (Bohr's interpretation) is that triggering the detector is an observation in itself, so the state is already determined before opening the box. There are many more interpretations of Schrodinger's cat such as the Ensemble, Relational, and Transactional interpretations. Ultimately, given enough time in the box, the cat will die.</s>\ <s>[INST] Tell me about Transactional interpretations [/INST] The transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics (TIQM) takes the wave function of the standard quantum formalism, and its complex conjugate, to be retarded (forward in time) and advanced (backward in time) waves that form a quantum interaction as a Wheeler–Feynman handshake or transaction. It was first proposed in 1986 by John G. Cramer, who argues that it helps in developing intuition for quantum processes. He also suggests that it avoids the philosophical problems with the Copenhagen interpretation and the role of the observer, and also resolves various quantum paradoxes.</s>