Hrrm, reminds me of what Albert tried to explain the concept of the cat in the box to Death in... the Last Hero I think it was. Considering it was Death he was trying to explain it too, who points out that if he didn't know if something was alive or dead he'd be kind of bad at his job, it just results in the anthropomorphic personification giving Albert a cool look, removing the cat from the box and firmly stating "I can't abide cruelty to cats".
My brother's in Chemistry, and they made some shirts in their science fair for the concept, with pictures! "Schrödinger's cat is: Alive Dead A zombie!"
Discworld Death's fondness for cats has been shown many times, from his various discussions with The Amazing Maurice, to his granddaughter Susan referring to it when she saw a museum display of Anthropomorphic taxidermy which included come kittens and noting that her grandfather would have had a few choice words to say to whoever came up with THAT concept.
And as Pratchett has said in another of his books which uses the Schrodinger analogy, any experiment where there's an evens chance that when you open the box you'll find a pissed off, mildly radioactive, cat leaping out at you, is probably not one you want to perform.
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"Schrödinger's cat is:
Alive
Dead
A zombie!"
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And as Pratchett has said in another of his books which uses the Schrodinger analogy, any experiment where there's an evens chance that when you open the box you'll find a pissed off, mildly radioactive, cat leaping out at you, is probably not one you want to perform.
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