45: Schrodinger

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Schrodinger
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Explanation

Schrödinger's_cat Is a famous thought experiment proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in which a cat inside a box with a complex apparatus might be alive or dead after 1 hour. Doing calculations on the state of the system would require accounting for both a living and dead cat. This would result in very complex calculations due to having to account for a seemingly simple alive/dead state. Simply opening the box and looking would tell you which state is currently correct and save quite a bit of calculation.

Transcript

(Black Hat and Cueball standing under a sign)

[Schrödinger's Comic]

[The last panel of this comic is both funny and not funny at the same time.]

[Until you read it, there's no way to tell which it will end up being.]

[Shit.]


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Discussion

There were no comments until you scrolled down. 108.162.219.246 20:21, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

There were two comments before you scrolled down. 173.245.56.130 12:02, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

...shit...--TheTimeBandit (talk) 21:20, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

I read it as: The comic is not funny, and thus the curse word is because it's not funny. Does anyone else agree? 01:22, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

This is the BEST for me, so my cat ended up being funny 162.158.129.112 15:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

I find this funny every time. Is this bad? Have I disproved Schrödinger? Psychoticpotato (talk) 19:58, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

No you just happen to be from a universe where the comic is actually funny. But if we debate about the funniness of the comic then the interference pattern in these comments will collapse and we'll be forced into the funny or unfunny version of the comic. IAmADroid (talk) 03:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)