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October 03, 2005
The Curator’s Egg.
A comment at Talk Politics led to an outburst of poetry. Quite wonderful, quantum mechanics and Dr. Seuss from The Curator’s Egg:
Schödinger’s Cat in the Hat Box
When Heisenberg announced with pleasure,
“There are some things you cannot measure.
Not simultaneously at least.”
His irritating smile increased.
“The surer the momentum’s grown,
The less position will be known.”
“But that’s not all,” intruded Bohr.
(A name quite apt. I won’t say more)
“It’s observation perhaps
That makes the wave function collapse.
Until it does it’s all just smeared.
OK, I know it sounds quite weird.
But quantum physics can’t be knocked -
Its implications leave all shocked,
Except those, on the other hand,
Who simply do not understand.”
So Schrödinger, that studious gent
Devised a thought experiment.
A box, some acid and a jigger
Set off by a quantum trigger,
A cat, whose life or death would show
Emission had occurred or no.
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