Schrodinger's lolcat

Credit to Justin Wick for the idea, and Kevin Steele for the photo.

Update I had no idea this thing would get so much press. T-shirts may or may not be coming soon. (pending licensing discussion)

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Cirne says:

That is cool!

LOLing too small for the visible eye.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Tony Lupo says:

Ha hahahahaaha
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

thetwilitekid says:

Very clever. Where's the cyanide? :)
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Nick Douglas says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lolgeeks, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Spin Martin says:

Oh for the love of LOLGOD
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

rewl says:

i think i just peed my pants.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

whirligigfarmkid says:

FWIW - I thought I'd add my alternate caption:

IM IN UR BOX

AMBIGUOUS8N UR HAIZGR ST8

KTHXBAI

ORNOT
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

benno37 says:

Another Schrodinger's lolcat.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

virtualcourtney says:

I love this. Love!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

ev1lk1tt3n says:

ROTFLMFAO...... wow. Truthfully, I didn't really find the whole LOLcat thing all that funny..... but this is gdamn hilarious. :)

...... and now to clean the coffee out of my keyboard, and blow my nose..........
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

uhujazz says:

Same here, this is the first one I've laughed at. I'm still laughing! Brilliant.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

jauderho says:

Awesome!!!

Now would someone be willing to LOLcat Nori (noncommercial permission granted for this purpose only)?

Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ Nat hamlin says:

ROTFL

...maybe
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ Nat hamlin says:

I think the T should have the same photo but with a dead cat on reverse side.

ps I LUV KITTEHS!!! LOL
THAT's Y I NEVAH LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
LULZ...
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Debbie G says:

I'M IN UR PHOTOSTREAM ROTFL, RLY.

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Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

lilith penguin says:

I find it funny that Scientific American's website is even linking here.

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Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Mark Interrante (aka pinhole) says:

LOL
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

kat cruickshank says:

Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

puck-man says:

So this had me laughing my ass off, guys in the office looked and were confused, I explained why it was and now they wont talk to me.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Carolyn C. says:

This is a pretty damn specific joke...but LOL-worthy!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

'ju:femaiz says:

absolutely gold!

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Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

smg55039 says:

Geek humor is the best humor.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

puck-man says:

This is STILL funny, seen it several times now.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

Laserone ☆ Lauren says:

Love it!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

kinstshaw says:

This is my favourite lolcat EVER.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Rob Burke says:

Please make t-shirts!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ Nat hamlin says:

Dear Cecil:

Cecil, you're my final hope
Of finding out the true Straight Dope
For I have been reading of Schroedinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.
This unusual animal (so it is said)
Is simultaneously live and dead!
What I don't understand is just why he
Can't be one or other, unquestionably.
My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't.
If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way
And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
Then I will and won't see you in Schroedinger's zoo.
--Randy F., Chicago

Dear Randy:

Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics!
Wrote daring equations! Confounded his critics!
(Not bad, eh? Don't worry. This part of the verse
Starts off pretty good, but it gets a lot worse.)
Win saw that the theory that Newton'd invented
By Einstein's discov'ries had been badly dented.
What now? wailed his colleagues. Said Erwin, "Don't panic,
No grease monkey I, but a quantum mechanic.
Consider electrons. Now, these teeny articles
Are sometimes like waves, and then sometimes like particles.
If that's not confusing, the nuclear dance
Of electrons and suchlike is governed by chance!
No sweat, though--my theory permits us to judge
Where some of 'em is and the rest of 'em was."
Not everyone bought this. It threatened to wreck
The comforting linkage of cause and effect.
E'en Einstein had doubts, and so Schroedinger tried
To tell him what quantum mechanics implied.
Said Win to Al, "Brother, suppose we've a cat,
And inside a tube we have put that cat at--
Along with a solitaire deck and some Fritos,
A bottle of Night Train, a couple mosquitoes
(Or something else rhyming) and, oh, if you got 'em,
One vial prussic acid, one decaying ottom
Or atom--whatever--but when it emits,
A trigger device blasts the vial into bits
Which snuffs our poor kitty. The odds of this crime
Are 50 to 50 per hour each time.
The cylinder's sealed. The hour's passed away. Is
Our pussy still purring--or pushing up daisies?
Now, you'd say the cat either lives or it don't
But quantum mechanics is stubborn and won't.
Statistically speaking, the cat (goes the joke),
Is half a cat breathing and half a cat croaked.
To some this may seem a ridiculous split,
But quantum mechanics must answer, "Tough @#&!
We may not know much, but one thing's fo' sho':
There's things in the cosmos that we cannot know.
Shine light on electrons--you'll cause them to swerve.
The act of observing disturbs the observed--
Which ruins your test. But then if there's no testing
To see if a particle's moving or resting
Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor!
We know probability--certainty, never.'
The effect of this notion? I very much fear
'Twill make doubtful all things that were formerly clear.
Till soon the cat doctors will say in reports,
"We've just flipped a coin and we've learned he's a corpse."'
So saith Herr Erwin. Quoth Albert, "You're nuts.
God doesn't play dice with the universe, putz.
I'll prove it!" he said, and the Lord knows he tried--
In vain--until fin'ly he more or less died.
Win spoke at the funeral: "Listen, dear friends,
Sweet Al was my buddy. I must make amends.
Though he doubted my theory, I'll say of this saint:
Ten-to-one he's in heaven--but five bucks says he ain't."

--CECIL ADAMS
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

anomalous4 says:

YA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-AAAAAAAAAY this is my fave lolcat ever!

I love the poetry too.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

anomalous4 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called LOLscience, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

susurrus_sparks says:

Invitation!
100+ Favorites: Cats

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Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

DubSnipe says:

I used your picture for my blog:

I'ma here to tell you bout the Schrödinger's cat
as soon as he was born he was the bastard of the pack
as crazy as it seems, it's really hard to explain
but ended getting half-killed by Dr. Insane

Schrödinger confused quantum physics with style
so let me break it down so you can make this worthwhile
he quickly got involved in this big science dispute
the order of the world, became his greatest pursuit

After many letters to Al Einstein, his ally
they noticed that the Copenhagen crew was, then so high
'cause everything to them was uncertain, every particle
and such a dope thought, at the time became radical

Erwin came up, with this idea to mock
all those cocky bastards with their atoms that rock
described by probability, not just move and bounce
but seem to cross slits at both locations at once

He said 'Yo bitches, your ideas are jokes
so what if you just get Poor Kitty in the box
with acid at his face so if we're done
at least we get to see the cute pussy get gone'

Activate it with this funky radioactive stuff
with an atom that might equally decay or not
Now this reminds me of the guy in my refrigerator
turning on and off the light, more sooner than later

As the atom in the system is there and not
will the machine get to kill Poor Kitty at the spot?
he chuckles at Bohr and Heisenberg, says 'both'
he's dead and alive, just too much for this plot

So it sounds sort of stupid, sorry to disappoint
Poor Kitty's good and gone till you see him, that's the point
you see him live an' kickin and you ask 'but why?'
he'll look you in the eye and say 'kthxbai'.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

invisibleplanet says:

i'd have closed the box lid and written "n/one cat" on the side :)
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

dcjensen says:

Several months ago I used your creation and a quick bit of photoshop to create a LiveJournal Icon for my girlfriend.

I hope you do not mind. It makes her happy.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

dantekgeek says:

@dcjensen - Cool! I dig it.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

ehop1088 says:

I love it!! Thank you. :)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

mattbaron says:

I definitely feel like a nerd for getting this. At least I see I'm in good company.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

burch25276 says:

Hahahahahaaaa!!!! Printing this for Physics teacher hubby to hang in his lab.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

stephen08983 says:

Please make a t-shirt of this!
Posted 6 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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