# What was Schrodinger's cat's name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 13, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203 "2013-05-13T02:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/1 "2013-05-13T02:24:28Z")
I like to think that he wouldn’t have picked something as mundane as Fluffy for the half dead cat. What you do you folks think? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/2 "2013-05-13T02:28:12Z")
Well, just open the box and see what it says on his collar. If he’s wearing one. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/3 "2013-05-13T02:34:45Z")
The cat only had half a name. Or it had two names simultaneously. I never figured out which. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/4 "2013-05-13T02:39:10Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Well, just open the box and see what it says on his collar. If he’s wearing one. He probably only has half a collar, and I’ll probably be mostly dead if I open the box. > [@kunilou](#): > > The cat only had half a name. Or it had two names simultaneously. I never figured out which. Hmmmm…I need to go roll in catnip while I think about that. You are right. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/5 "2013-05-13T02:40:59Z")
Her name was May Bea. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/6 "2013-05-13T03:01:28Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > The cat only had half a name. Or it had two names simultaneously. I never figured out which. Some would argue that it either had a name or it didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/7 "2013-05-13T03:11:58Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > Her name was May Bea. I so love you!!! I wants to have your babies and subscribe to your newsletter. Best answer ever!!! ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/8 "2013-05-13T03:20:05Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > I so love you!!! I wants to have your babies and subscribe to your newsletter. Best answer ever!!! **flatlined!** You can’t have my babies (actually they are adult children) because they have to stay here and help me finish celebrating Mother’s Day.😃 ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/9 "2013-05-13T03:25:19Z")
Happy Mother’s Day!!! Adult kids are always good, they can work harder and don’t us table forks to dig in the flowerbeds. [While I was looking around, I found](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOYyCHGWJq4)this. I think its the best one I’ve ever seen/heard. And I think that you had the best answer about the mane. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/10 "2013-05-13T04:06:06Z")
I don’t know the cat’s name, but I figured this was a good time to re-post the [Master’s epic poem on the topic](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/113/the-story-of-schroedingers-cat-an-epic-poem) for anyone who hasn’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/11 "2013-05-13T12:38:16Z")
“Lucky”. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/12 "2013-05-13T12:43:17Z")
“Proton,” if he was a tom; “Neutron,” if he was fixed. And, I suppose, “Electra,” if she was a queen. ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/13 "2013-05-13T20:35:28Z")
|tiddles\>+|the late tiddles\> ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/14 "2013-05-13T20:45:39Z")
Toonces. That cat was dead half the time. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/15 "2013-05-13T20:58:03Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > Her name was May Bea. Shirley, you can’t be serious. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/16 "2013-05-13T21:04:22Z")
Schrodinger was wrong. _In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious. Greebo went off like a Claymore mine._ – Schrodinger’s Moggy explained ( **Terry Pratchett** , _Lords and Ladies_) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/17 "2013-05-13T21:10:14Z")
“Excuse me, Professor Schroedinger, but have you seen my cat?” “Maybe I have, and maybe I haven’t.” ---
**Author:** ![cougar58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@cougar58](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cougar58)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/18 "2013-05-13T22:07:18Z")
qubit ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/19 "2013-05-13T22:35:36Z")
Heinlein claimed his name was Pixel. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/20 "2013-05-13T22:39:27Z")
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