Thursday, March 6, 2014

Schrödinger's Cat ... with a Theremin

Schrödinger's Cat is a big hit on social networks as he's useful when you want to pretend to be a physicist.  I am not a physicist, I just like making noise.

What is really hilarious, if you're a physicist, is that you can put a cat into Schrödinger's box and you would not know if it is alive or dead without opening the box.  Therefore, the cat is effectively alive and dead at the same time.

Yah, yah, that's very clever and maybe it gets you laid at physics conference but we don't care if the cat is alive or dead ... except insofar as it can make noise.  It can also prove space aliens exist.

Before installing the cat, we will first place a theremin inside the box.  The theremin is an instrument that is played by the motion around it with your hands ... or a cat.

After closing the box, the sound of the theremin will continue but observation is not sufficient to determine if the cat is alive or dead.  We know the sound continues but we cannot say emphatically that the cat is alive and the cat is doing it.  The cat may be dead and the sound is being produced by the interference of space aliens.  Thus we deduce that space aliens exist and cats suck as physicists.

We now return you to Bill Nye for some boring crap about evolution that everyone knew already.

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