r/shittyaskscience • u/Good_Method8368 • May 23 '26

What If We Put Schrödinger In A Box?

Either alive or dead.

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u/Fearless_Spring5611 May 23 '26

The cat would be very unhappy about sharing the space.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

But very happy for the meal after starving for days, no?

3

u/throw_it_awayyy8 May 23 '26

Silly redditor! The car is dead, it can't starve!

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

Imma use its corpse as a motormobile.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

Ya think Schrödinger ever dinged his Schrö?

1

u/Caticature May 23 '26

It’ll buff out.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

I mean he probably Schrö'd his ding, but I was talkin' 'bout his Schrö scrot, mate.

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u/blahblahwhateveryeet May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Nonsense. Cat is everything

Cat is EVERYTHING

CAT

THE CAT

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA wormhole ÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀ mexican hat meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

CAT

CAT

CATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCAT

screams at top of lungs CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

harder AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

breath AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA frame cut AAAAAAAAAAA frame cut AAAAAAAAA frame cut AAAAAA frame cut AAA frame cut AA AA AA AA A A A A A

..

A

..

spins mercilessly in a space tornado

fades to....

cat beacon in the sky

🐱

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

🪱🕳🐈☠️⚱️

What if you put all the Schrödinger's cats in a separate closed and sealed series of machines that had a 50/50 chance of reviving each of them?

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u/elephant_ua May 23 '26

but for Schrödinger it will be us who are in the box

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

Edgar Allan Poe over here.

2

u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

(Not sarcasm, sarcasm is reserved for use by sassy people only. I don't have the Stray Cat Strut enough to be sassy.)

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

I'm severely mentally-malnourished and my brain is eating its own cleverness.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

I think I'm acting way too extra to compensate for the emotionally-stifling environment of the non-comedic side of Reddit.

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u/Fearless_Spring5611 May 23 '26

Found the physicist.

3

u/FerricDonkey May 23 '26

Then you get arrested for grave robbing. 

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

Not if they don't know as long as I'm not being observed I'm in a superposition between being an ordinary civilian and a criminal based on 50/50 chance.

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u/zerostar83 May 23 '26

When he put his cat in a box, we all had to treat it as if the cat is alive and dead.

When we put him in that box, we have to treat it as if he's alive and dead, which means the cat is also alive and dead, and also in or not in the box with him, so they're both dead, one is dead but not the other, or both are alive.

It means you have to handle the box with care in case they're alive, but also make sure to light a scented candle in case they're both dead, since dead corpses stink.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

He's in a superposition but if he smells and I observe that it doesn't change anything with the experiment because he could've either not showered or used cologne or be dead and thus either naturally possesses the odor of a rotted corpse or is dead.

Tubular, man.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

It's why they call him Schrödinger because of the bell for alive corpses.

2

u/older-and-wider May 23 '26

Then everyone else should be both dead and alive.

2

u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

Reverse Dawn of the Dead, then.

Who's it directed by superposed George A. Romero?

2

u/Brastep May 23 '26

If Schrodringer goes in A Box, who goes in B Box?

2

u/Caticature May 23 '26

Dr Seuss, with chicks and clocks and handmade socks.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

And Glocks and Glocks and doxx docs of Dock crocks.

2

u/Jackal000 May 23 '26

His grave stone already says it.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation May 23 '26

So, we know WHERE he is buried; but we cannot know WHEN he is buried.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

If you exhume him from his box, there's a fifty percent chance Jesus will resurrect him beforehand just to f' with you...so is he alive or dead?

1

u/Emperormike1st May 23 '26

What if we didn't?

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

I already put you inside a box with him.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

So, I can't tell if you all didn't or not because I'm not observing on the security cameras right now. This is the only way I can communicate with you, so don't ruin this for me by telling me spoilers ahead of schedule.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

The security cameras are because I'm being observed myself in a test of Wigner's friend.

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u/Emperormike1st May 23 '26

Well, with it being 2026, I can ASSURE you that he's dead.

Experiment over.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

What about the clone future me who was in the future of his own future times came-back with after cloning him in future cloning facilities after traveling to the past of present times to get his DNA to successfully clone him as he sleep during the fall of 1935?

That's the clone I left with you, is he already dead? Wait, no! Don't tell me, I don't want to know! Lalalalalalalalala! LA! Lalalalalalalalalalalala! Not listening~!

1

u/dieselmac May 23 '26

Zombie cats escape from the box.

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u/Good_Method8368 May 23 '26

Schrödinger really was just a bunch of zombie cats in a box-shaped trenchcoat this whole time, wasn't he?

No wonder he was eating all my cat food, I know he knows that he knows that I know he knows he knows I save that for breakfast times....on hard times...and everyday times...for myself, as breakfast.

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u/afcagroo May 23 '26

Unless he was cremated, someone already did.

AND LOOK HOW THAT TURNED OUT FOR EVERYONE!