I have sworn (loudly and inappropriately on occasion … well I didn’t think it was inappropriate but the twitching of my dining companions is usually a good indication of these things) that i will make a short book entitled “all the schrodinger’s cat jokes ever (for a given value of ever)” which will collate as many schrodinger’s cat experiment jokes as possible into a single tome. I am optimistic that this will bring about one of two things:

1. Having created a critical mass of terrible Schrödinger’s cat jokes the printing of the first book will tear open a gateway to another set of dimensions through which all Schrödinger’s cat jokes will be sucked, thus sparing us all.
2. The shear diversity of the book will raise the bar for all Schrödinger’s cat jokes, thus leading to a new enlightened era where no-one else ever need draw a picture solely consisting of “Schrödinger being angry with a cat” ever again.

I mean it’s not even like it highlights one of the more interesting aspects of quantum theory. If the criteria for a quantum object were simply that “no-one can see it right now so we can’t be absolutely sure what it’s doing” then i have some incredibly bad news for people in darkened rooms everywhere.

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