# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/21 "2013-05-14T06:06:24Z")
> [@Asympotically\_fat](#): > > |tiddles\>+|the late tiddles\> Schroedinger’s ket? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/22 "2013-05-14T06:36:33Z")
Izzy ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/23 "2013-05-14T12:27:50Z")
Lazarus. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/24 "2013-05-14T12:39:21Z")
Do we even know if he had a cat? - I mean, he either did or he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/25 "2013-05-14T13:01:34Z")
I went to school with Schrödinger. He had 2 beagles, Blondi and some other one whose name I don’t recall. He was entirely catless as far as I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/26 "2013-05-14T14:19:03Z")
Eric. Eric the Half a Cat. \*Half a cat, in actual fact, Might, ipso facto, smell a rat. But half the cat has got to act Vis a vis how an atom’s at. Got that? But can a cat be really sat Upon a mat, under a hat When half the cat is not a fact Due to decay in Erwin’s vat?\* ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/27 "2013-05-14T14:43:25Z")
In Ian Stewart’s _Flatterland,_ the cat was named Superpaws, a play on the word “superposition.” ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/28 "2013-05-14T15:53:50Z")
Taint. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/29 "2013-05-14T16:04:27Z")
Arthur ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/30 "2013-05-14T16:12:48Z")
Enigma ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/31 "2013-05-14T17:42:07Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Izzy Almost as good as “May Bea”; I’m glad I didn’t even try. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/32 "2013-05-14T17:58:21Z")
Well, what was the name of Eddie Mastrewski’s cat? ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/33 "2013-05-14T18:51:34Z")
Half Cat Half Dead? ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/34 "2013-05-14T21:39:55Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Izzy Perfect! ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/35 "2013-05-14T22:13:14Z")
Purrhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/36 "2013-05-14T23:09:00Z")
Lide or Deli…depending on who/what you’re rooting for. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/37 "2013-05-15T04:17:51Z")
You don’t name a dead cat. What can I say… I’m decisive. Plus, when you open the box it is easier to “fix” things to meet this paradigm if you are wrong than the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/38 "2013-05-15T05:01:12Z")
You guys are so awesome!!! It took me a minute to get Izzy and then I laughed like a loon ril. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/39 "2013-05-15T05:44:08Z")
Schrödinger asked Heisenberg to come up with the name. However, the more Schrödinger asked Werner about the cat’s full, proper name, the less sure he was whether or not it was indeed his cat. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203/40 "2013-05-15T15:27:23Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > You guys are so awesome!!! > > It took me a minute to get Izzy and then I laughed like a loon ril. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-schrodingers-cats-name/658203.md?page=3)