God Plays Dice

IN UR QUANTUM BOX... MAYBE, perhaps the best lolcat ever. (But then again, I'm biased due to the affection I have for the whole Schrodinger's Cat problem, because I like quantum mechanics and I like cats.)

The comments include the following gems:
"Of corse, kitteh 2 big 2 b unserten in qwantum way witout bein reely reely reely cold. Like reely neer absuloot 0."

"Oh hai! I brought u a wayv funkshun. But i collapsded it."

"I wuz playin wit string theoriez, but now Iz restin."

"Kitteh partikalz givin off much cyootness energi. Round O’cheezburgerz fer evybodi!"

"umm, wen box closed and sealed from environment, Shrodingur’s kitteh in ’sooper-posishon’ of beeing bof alive an ded. Wen u open box, you interfear wiv da kitteh, da wayv funkshun kolaps and u see kitteh is eyver alive or ded."

and about four-fifths of the way down, a copy of this list of feline laws of physics.

(from I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER?)

There exists such a thing as "quantum probability". Basically, it's like ordinary probability, except that instead of having probability density functions, you have wavefunctions. (Sometimes you have "discrete wavefunctions", which are wavefunctions that are concentrated on, say, the integers; I don't know if this is the right technical terminology. This doesn't seem to occur in actual quantum systems -- what with the world being continuous and all -- but that doesn't stop a mathematician!) These are annoying because wavefunctions are complex-valued and I can't keep nearly as many complex numbers straight in my head as real numbers. I'll probably have more to say about quantum probability in the future.

Anyway, I was walking down the street earlier today, lamenting this fact (after trying to do such computations in my head and failing) and I saw somebody wearing a T-shirt which said Schrodinger's cat is dead. I thought this was sad! Then after she walked past I saw that on the back of her shirt it said "Schrodinger's cat is not dead".

This joke's been done before, though. Griffiths' text on quantum mechanics has a picture of a live cat on the front and a dead cat on the back.

An ex of mine said that the only legitimate use of HTML's <blink> tag (which fortunately is used a lot less often than it was in, say, the late nineties) was the following:
Schrodinger's cat is NOT dead.