Schrödinger's Invisible Pet

Schrödinger's Invisible Pet
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Looking at an empty box next to a mirror and calling it "Schrödinger's cat" is peak physics humor. The cat exists in a superposition of states—simultaneously inside the box and not inside the box until you observe it. Of course, the actual thought experiment involved radioactive decay potentially killing the cat, not some quantum feline playing hide-and-seek with reality. Thirty years teaching quantum mechanics and students still think this is the height of cleverness. I suppose it's better than another entropy joke that's falling apart.

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