# List of nonsensical things that house cats do

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 6, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-nonsensical-things-that-house-cats-do/730171 "2015-09-06T12:50:25Z")\
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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> All cats, no matter which room they are in, MUST BE IN THE OTHER ROOM IMMEDIATELY, because cats.

Cats, being manifestations of various quantum physics phenomena, can be in as many places simultaneously as they wish. [We’ve discussed this before.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17857868#post17857868)

> [@Cat Physics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-physics/702969/8):
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> Cats are nothing more than a macroscopic collection of interacting quantum systems (or particles). However, cats have developed a rather fine degree of control over the probabilities of their various superposed states.
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> Take for example the above post by **MLS** about the cat that suddenly appeared. Actually, that is just a quantum tunneling effect that could happen to any cat, any time, anywhere, but only with (normally) very low probability. What the cat seems able to do is alter the probability density functions to make this much more probable, and therefore it will actually happen more often.

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