Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics. A cat, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.
This video is starring Snakes the cat as Schrodinger's Cat, Monkey P. Thomas as radioactive material and me. Sorry for the crap singing.
Special thanks to kshizzle27 for the karaoke version of Dick in a Box.
Lyrics:
Hey, girl. I know you've been having a hard time understanding quantum mechanics. So just sit down and listen...
Girl, you know I been a physicist for such a long long time (such a long time)
And I made up this experiment for you to do in your mind.
Wow, cuz quantum mechanics are so hard to comprehend
Who knows if you'll even understand it at the experiment's end.
An experiment so special, but don't take off the top.
Just don't look inside...it's a cat in a box
Or dead in a box.
Not gonna make you read Einstein's theories
That sorta thing will not answer your queries
Not gonna make you do the calculations
Girl, that's not the way to understandifcations.
Not gonna get you a physics textbook
A girl like you might not even look
Wanna get you something a little absurd
Somethin' crazy, girl.
It's a cat in a box!
A cat in a box, babe.
Schrodinger's cat in a box!
A cat in box, girl.
See I'm wise enough to know if a cat is livin'
Or if maybe it's dead
It could be both if you don't open that box in your head.
To all the fellas out there with physics to explain
Just set up this experiment in your brain:
Step one: Put a cat in a box
Two: Put other stuff in that box
Three: Don't even look in the box
And that's the way you do it!
It's a cat in a box!
A cat in a box, babe.
Schrodinger's cat in a box!
A cat in a box, girl.
Hammers. Cat in a box.
Radioactive material. Schrodinger's cat in a box.
Cyanide. A cat in a box.
Did the cat get killed or is it live in the box?
As long as you don't look it could be both in the box.
Simultaneously dead and alive there in the box.
Don't ask me how it works, but it's a cat in a box.
A cat in a box
Cat in a box
Cat in a box!
or rather, "thought experiment",
evilbecauseyouwantme 1 year ago
@evilbecauseyouwantme : well, it's meant to be kind of absurd. and it's not just that it could be both dead and alive...it's that it simultaneously exists as a dead and alive cat as long as you don't look in the box.
frenchiesaunders 1 year ago