3rd Miauen

[selfobservation]

 [Action - All around town]

[A certain catboy is up to his usual routine, walking--or teleporting--around looking for mischief.

What one is likely to notice, though, is that today Schrodinger is wearing a Hitler Youth uniform. If people didn't know he was a Nazi before, it should be obvious now.

He's likely to approach anyone he sees and give them a friendly greeting.]

[Phone]

It has come to my attention that many of you seem to have great difficulty understanding the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment. I'm almost starting to get bored of explaining it! [Except not really, because he's found that the results of trying to explain it to people in Mayfield are often hilarious.]

So, let me ask...how many of you are already familiar with it? 

Comments

[thebeastwithout]

Whaaaat?! C'mon! It's like when a cat is sleeping, nothing you do can make it move because it'll just scratch you but if it's running away 'cause you stepped on its tail, there's no way it's gonna stop!

[selfobservation]

...People get scratched by cats anyway, you know.

Schrodinger's cat is neither dead nor alive.

[thebeastwithout]

What?

That's just weird. How can it not be dead or alive?

[selfobservation]

Well, he's in a box, right?

And poison may or may not be released into the box, but you can't know if it has or hasn't.

So how do you know if the cat is still alive or not?

[thebeastwithout]

Open the box?

[selfobservation]

What if you're not allowed? Hmmm?

[thebeastwithout]

Then your question is stupid because any normal person could just open the box.

[selfobservation]

Not opening the box is the point.

[thebeastwithout]

But that's pointless. All it proves is that you're too lazy to open a box and check if it's dead or not, not that it's neither.

[selfobservation]

No, no, no.

It's not neither.

It's both.

[thebeastwithout]

You said neither first! C'mon, you don't even know what the point is.

[selfobservation]

[He doesn't respond at first, just laughs.]

Well, I see you were paying attention!

[thebeastwithout]

Sure, whatever. It doesn't even mean anything, does it?

[selfobservation]

Sure it does. To physicists.

And to me.

[thebeastwithout]

So what does it mean to you?

[selfobservation]

My name is Schrodinger. I am Schrodinger's cat.

[thebeastwithout]

...

I don't get it.

[selfobservation]

Somehow, I didn't think you would.

[thebeastwithout]

Anyway, you're obviously alive so the experiment's still dumb.

[selfobservation]

I am alive as long as I believe I am.

[thebeastwithout]

But you believe you're not dead or alive. Or both.

[selfobservation]

That experiment is the basis of my existence.

I am not the experiment itself.

[thebeastwithout]

...

Man, why are we even talking about this? Do you play games? Do you like playing games, dude? I don't care if you're a cat; you've just gotta have thumbs.

[selfobservation]

[Snort.]

Hmmm, you could say I like games!

[thebeastwithout]

OK, we're talkin' about Mega Monkeys 4 now. No poison or cats, 'k?