# Newton's Cat's Cradle

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newtons-cats-cradle/637933>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 16, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newtons-cats-cradle/637933 "2012-10-16T22:12:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newtons-cats-cradle/637933/1 "2012-10-16T22:12:42Z")

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**Kittens Learn About Physics** reads the title

> **[Kittens Learn About Physics](https://cheezburger.com/43296513)**
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> Kittens Learn About Physics - World's largest collection of cat memes and other animals

It is wonderful the ways in which cats assimilate the laws of the natural world. It must be instinct.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newtons-cats-cradle/637933/2 "2012-10-16T22:23:16Z")

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Dang, my education classes must be getting to me. When I saw the cat gnawing on the steel frame, my first thought was “Sensorymotor stage of development”.

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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newtons-cats-cradle/637933/3 "2012-10-16T22:50:24Z")

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At the end, when the kitten slides itself into the supporting frame, I imagined it saying to the others, “Lookit me, lookit me! I’m the Big Bang!”

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newtons-cats-cradle/637933/4 "2012-10-17T00:06:40Z")

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They have to learn the basics of the laws of physics before they can learn to violate them. This is just the first lesson before the humans strap the buttered toast onto their backs!