“It is fair to say that it has been dead for quite a while already”, archivist Ernst Bebner tells us. He originally discovered the box in the basement of a university building. “Even after such a long time, the vial of poison was still intact. Sadly, the poor animal probably died of thirst.”
When you think about it, he was never quite with it: Erwin Schrödinger |
“I am very sorry that it is dead,” Bebner sighs. “I am not sure what impact this has on quantum mechanics, but hopefully scientists will soon be able to provide some clarity on that.”
In fact, scientists are already working meticulously on a modification of the experimental setup so they can reuse Schrödinger’s thought experiment. In this new version, the vial of poison is to be exchanged for a strong voodoo witchcraft elixir. Afterwards, the box is to be resealed, causing the cat to hover again in a state of uncertainty between dead and not dead until the box is reopened.
ejo, dan, ssi; picture [M]: Shutterstock; first published 2017-11-22
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