There are frequent references on this board to Schrodinger’s Cat, but I have to say I’ve never seen it in the comics, before today.
For those of you who didn’t see it in today’s paper, here’s a link
I thought the punchline was particularly good.
Heeheeheehee. I’ve always thought that is exactly what I would do, were I the cat (and alive) when the box was opened.
I agree about the punchline. It’s great!
Reminds me of a Futurama episode where a horse race was so close, it was declared a quantum finish and had to be examined with an electron microscope.
Professor Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the results by measuring them!
Gotta love geek humor. It’s funny AND obscure! Woohoo!
Maybe not the funnies, but the other day I just rewatched the first episode of the third season of Six Feet Under, where Nate has dream-sequence-under-the-knife, showing a number of alternate fates for him.
David showing flashcards to an obviously brain-damaged Nate. Trying to get him to say “Cat.”
Watching the soap opera with Claire:
Then the end of the sequence, with “ghost” Nate observing his own funeral with his late father, standing in front of his closed casket:
Then there are lots of subtler references later, like Nate looking a little unsettled as his friends emphatically tell their toddler to “Put the kitty down!” (An ambiguous phrase…)
Sure, the Schrodinger’s cat problem has probably penetrated pop consciousness more than more than any other bit o’ physics, but on a non-geek drama like Six Feet Under, I’ll bet a significant portion of viewers took it as just generally weird. (I’m glad they didn’t dirty it up with awkward exposition. Screw the LCD.)