Schroedinger's Cat

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What colour is Schroedinger's Cat?

I've always imagined it to be black.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

all cats are grey in the dark (schoedinger's box is like a fridge, the light comes on when the door opens)

handy also if cat dead when door opened since you can just close it again, and the body won't insatantly decay

i haf turned into pete baran help me

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If the wave function collapses its white. Else its tortoiseshell.

― Pete, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

marmalade

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As the cat only exists as a waveform, why not have an exciting multicolour cat! My cat would be light blue and peach.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cor i like MarkC's answer! though i always kind of imagined it as a tabby, as when i was wee we had a tabby cat that quite literally liked to hide in boxes!! does anyone else remember that book?

― katie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

er, that book being "My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes", natch. it was so good! all these cats from other places liked doing weird and wonderful stuff (like, the cat from Norway got stuck in the doorway, GENIUS!) but rather than faff around with all that, my cat liked to hide in boxes. although i don't think it died when the box was opened though... luckily Schroedinger didn't write that one then eh?

― katie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Katie, the author for that came to our school, and our class all had to make our own versions of the book, not only boring her senseless but showing her that her life's work could be done by a bunch of 8 year old kids.

I believe the next day she was found dead in a ditch choked on her own vomit in vodka fuelled annhilation.

― Graham, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cynic *rasp*

― katie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

graham's story = top analogy for quantum physics

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I knew a cat called the Jesscat -- nothing to do with our fearless fly- in-the-cheese loving ILx denizen -- that liked to hide in my suitcase. Very strange. And it was black, so in honor of it I say so is Schroedinger's.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tabby tortishell blend like our flat cat

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And I do not mean that it is deflated.

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we can't predicted what shade and color it will be at the same time I'm afraid

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hi toraneko!

― geoff, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can tell shade and shape those cause those commute.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I first heard of Schroedinger's Cat yesterday when reading this. Then, last night, I was reading a story in the current issue of The New Yorker which used the concept to illustrate a point... weird.

― Sean, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

weird sychronicities always occur. i expect it now and it almost never seems weird. and the cat is gray.

― Maria, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.s-cat.com/home2.html

apparently orange

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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