Finally, we have one from today’s Guardian compilation of science-themed valentines (there are more, but some of them aren’t compelling):
Of course, even this one goes wrong, for you’d be forever separated from your beloved.
Have a nice weekend, hopefully with your inamorata or inamorato. And here’s Dino to put you in the mood (from the 1955 movie “Artists and Models”):
Photograph: stock.xchng
I think even Schrodinger wouldn’t have actually put a real cat into the box in the first place….
b&
I guess it’s the thought that counts!
He’d have used Heisenberg’s cat. Probably.
Errr, “kah-boom-tisssssh! ?
He couldn’t have used Werner’s car; you never knew if it was napping under the bed or chasing all over the house….
b&
Location highly indeterminate. Therefore momentum low, implying low velocity for a fixed rest mass.
Sounds like Werner’s cat to me. QED.
I thought we were discussing Quantum ChromoDynamics, not Quantum ElectroDynamics…?
b&
Quantum Catrodynamics : all real solutions tend towards zero.
And infinity — simultaneously!
b&
Yeah, r.i.i.i.i.g.h.t.
NOT.
Blue
“Of course, even this one goes wrong, for you’d be forever separated from your beloved.”
If you take one aspect of love to be the concern for the other: then for sure your seperation from the beloved is the sacrifice you have to make to keep the other safe.
Then again – Schroedinger was a meany..
Schrödinger got a bad rap. His own words opening his presentation of the thought experiment were, “One can even set up quite ridiculous cases.” The whole thing is quite snarky, indeed; it’s a reducto al absudurdum with the strong implication that you’ve got to be bonkers to think that this his how it would actually play out.
b&
Am I correct in understanding that “I” is the cat in the picture?
The “I didn’t cheat on you…” one is a quite amusing addition to the stock of lame excuses for infidelity.
The real Schrödinger would have opened the box right away in a panic because he knew the cat would already be alive or dead inside (and wonder who the hell took his absurd paradox example literally)!
Someone should wire up a small pill of radium to a food dispenser and see if they can get a cat that’s both fed and not-fed at the same time.
I think the interesting practical experiment would be a Schrödinger-Thomson Lamp. Hook a toggle light switch up to a Geiger Counter.
b&