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{{quote|"Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat be both alive and dead until observed. Well, I actually performed the experiment. Dozens of times. The bad news is that reality doesn't exist. The good news is we have a new cat graveyard."|'''[[
The [http://tinyurl.com/8n2bm Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment] is increasing in popularity as a [[Motif]] in fiction. To elaborate, Erwin Schrödinger's thought experiment involved a cat sealed inside a box with a Geiger counter attached to it. Inside that Geiger counter is a small amount of radioactive substance. The box is set up so that when the radioactive substance decays, a device smashes a vial of toxic gas, killing the cat inside. The thing is, after an hour, until the box is open, there is ''no way'' to determine whether the cat inside is alive or dead, thus allowing the cat to be ''both'' alive and dead.
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