Two Lovers Lamenting the Existentialism of Schrödinger’s Cat

Location: Jumis Studio (and in my head)

 

Sitting Paragons: Jan & Peachy

 

Viewer/Camera: Firestorm

Editor: Gimp

 

Special Mention to Whimsical Aristocrat (What was She Thinking ??)

 

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Schrödinger's Cat

~Peggy Landsman~

 

Schrödinger’s Cat Laments

 

Look at me in this box all alone.

Who’s to care if I don’t feel at home?

There’s just this device,

Which isn’t so nice,

To see that I live or get blown....*

 

Schrödinger’s Cat Complains

 

Erwin’s cat caterwauls to her mate:

Verschränkung’s† controlling my fate.

Alive and quite dead,

I exist in his head,

A mere plaything of his mental state.

 

Schrödinger’s Cat Reconsiders

 

So, okay, I’ll exist in his head,

Both alive and impossibly dead.

I’ll welcome this feat

From my sweet catbird seat

For as long as he keeps me well fed.

 

Schrödinger’s Cat Explains

 

Though I’m only a thought in his mind,

It is taught I’m a curious kind.

Not here and not there,

I pop up everywhere

Demonstrating one cat’s double bind.

 

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*In a 1950 letter to Erwin Schrödinger,

Albert Einstein wrote of the cat “alive

and blown to bits.” Einstein’s original

suggestion to Schrödinger in 1935 mentioned

gunpowder, not a Geiger counter and poison.

 

†Verschränkung—“entanglement.” Schrödinger

coined this term while developing the

thought experiment.

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Done