Schrödingers Cat

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Schrödingers Cat Why is this cat so famous?

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Question:
Cecil, you're my final hope
Of finding out the true Straight Dope
For I have been reading of Schr÷dinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.
This unusual animal (so it is said)
Is simultaneously live and dead!
What I don't understand is just why he
Can't be one or the other, unquestionably.
My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't.
If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way
And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
then I will and won't see you in Schr÷dingers's zoo.

• http://www.meier-online.com/cat/catintro.html

• http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/science/schrocat.html

• http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/2_10.html#subindex

• http://users.pandora.be/nicvroom/schr_cat.htm

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SchroedingersCat