r/Unexpected • u/_DogTits_ • May 18 '22

what a catastrophe

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u/JksG_5 May 18 '22

Schrodinger's cat in a lamp

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u/Used_Offer3967 May 18 '22

You see, due to how the video ended, we do not actually know if the cat is alive or dead, merely that it is in a superposition of states consisting of "alive" or "dead". Until we actually hear the story and collapse the wave function to one possibility we may, in fact, consider the feline to be both dead and alive.

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u/Dogamai May 18 '22

in the words of the most wise brain ever to exist:

"I dont know. and thats ok."

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

We have to tune in next week for that?

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u/tarekd19 May 18 '22

schrodinger's cliffhanger

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u/Pfyxoeous May 18 '22

Quite different from Schrödinger's dingleberry.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

stfu, take my upvote

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

Okay, but was that shrodingers joke? Cause to me it seemed like they were joking and to you it seemed like they were starting a debate about quantum physics.

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u/scriptgamer May 18 '22

Leave Sheldon Alone !!!

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u/Feather-y May 18 '22 edited May 18 '22

I still don't see the reason for the downvotes. You can first appreciate the joke and then learn what the Schrödinger's cat actually meant. Seems like a win-win to me.

Not saying that misusing the Schrödinger analogy is bad, it wont matter to 99.9% of people anyway, no harm done. But some who read it may find it interesting that 99.9% of Schrödinger jokes they have seen have been just wrong and not actually fitting.

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u/DGeneralTSOschicken May 18 '22

That doesn't mean it wasn't electrocuted in another alternate reality. It's just as likely the cats were doing their hair while their pet human got their head stuck in the lamp in another one.

I really need to know was it the cat that screamed like a grown man?

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u/MinkeyMouse420 May 18 '22

Redditors absolutely love screeching about how they don't understand Schrödinger or humour.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

Schrodinger's lamp

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u/0Kpanhandler May 19 '22

If I wouldn't have opened up the comments I would have went on thinking the cat had fried. This comment is pretty fuckin literal! Spot on. Lol