{"id":2489,"date":"2015-03-14T08:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T08:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalrealism.info\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2015-03-14T08:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T08:08:36","slug":"wikipedia-iii-schrodingers-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalrealism.info\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia IV: Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat in popular culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia originaly published <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture\">here <\/a>under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bodyContent\" class=\"mw-body-content\">\n<div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"contentSub\"><b><a title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger's cat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat\">Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat<\/a><\/b> is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist <a title=\"Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger\">Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger<\/a> in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to <a title=\"Object (philosophy)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Object_%28philosophy%29\">everyday objects<\/a>. The thought experiment presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. In the course of developing this experiment, he coined the term Verschr\u00e4nkung (<a title=\"Quantum entanglement\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_entanglement\">entanglement<\/a>).<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<div id=\"toc\" class=\"toc\">\n<div id=\"toctitle\">\n<h2>Contents<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"toc\" class=\"toc\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-1\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">1<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Literature<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"toclevel-2 tocsection-2\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">1.1<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Animals other than cats<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-3\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">2<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Television<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-4\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">3<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Film<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-5\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">4<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Video games<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-6\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">5<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Web comics<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-7\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">6<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Music<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-8\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">7<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Merchandise<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-9\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">8<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">Politics<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-10\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">9<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">References<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-11\"><span class=\"tocnumber\">10<\/span> <span class=\"toctext\">External links<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span id=\"Literature\" class=\"mw-headline\">Literature<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This artwork by <a title=\"F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F._Gwynplaine_MacIntyre\">F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre<\/a>, originally published in <i><a title=\"Analog Science Fiction and Fact\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact\">Analog<\/a><\/i> magazine, illustrates MacIntyre&#8217;s science-fiction story &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat-Sitter&#8221;. The cat occupies a <a title=\"Quantum superposition\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_superposition\">quantum superposition<\/a> relative to the <a title=\"Blivet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blivet\">tined object<\/a>, being simultaneously in front of and behind the object, which itself occupies a quantum superposition because it is simultaneously a square-edged object with two tines and a round-edged object with three tines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<figure style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:SchroCat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimage\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ed\/SchroCat.jpg\/150px-SchroCat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture Nr. 1: This artwork by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, originally published in Analog magazine, illustrates MacIntyre&#8217;s science-fiction story &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat-Sitter&#8221;. The cat occupies a quantum superposition relative to the tined object, being simultaneously in front of and behind the object, which itself occupies a quantum superposition because it is simultaneously a square-edged object with two tines and a round-edged object with three tines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">\u00a0It was not long before science-fiction writers picked up this evocative concept, often using it in a humorous vein.<sup id=\"cite_ref-100CCC_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-100CCC-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> Several have taken the thought experiment a step further, pointing out extra complications which might arise should the experiment actually be performed. For example, in his novel <i><a title=\"American Gods\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Gods\">American Gods<\/a>,<\/i> <a title=\"Neil Gaiman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Gaiman\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> has a character observe, &#8220;if they don&#8217;t ever open the box to feed it, it&#8217;ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead.&#8221; Likewise, <a title=\"Terry Pratchett\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Pratchett\">Terry Pratchett<\/a>&#8216;s <i><a title=\"Lords and Ladies (novel)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lords_and_Ladies_%28novel%29\">Lords and Ladies<\/a><\/i> adds the issue of a third possible state, in the case of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Greebo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greebo\">Greebo<\/a>, &#8220;Bloody Furious&#8221;. (In Pratchett&#8217;s later novel <i><a title=\"The Last Hero\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Hero\">The Last Hero<\/a><\/i>, <a title=\"Death (Discworld)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_%28Discworld%29\">Death<\/a> attempts the experiment himself, but cannot understand the mechanics of it, wondering if it implies that he will kill the cat just by looking at it.) In <i><a title=\"Will Grayson, Will Grayson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Grayson,_Will_Grayson\">Will Grayson, Will Grayson<\/a><\/i>, by John Green and David Levithan, the Cat makes an appearance as an analogy for Will and Jane&#8217;s relationship.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Robert Anton Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Anton_Wilson\">Robert Anton Wilson<\/a> wrote a trilogy of novels dealing with themes related to quantum mechanics, collectively known as the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger's Cat trilogy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_Cat_trilogy\">Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Douglas Adams\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Adams\">Douglas Adams<\/a> describes an attempt to enact the experiment in <i><a title=\"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dirk_Gently%27s_Holistic_Detective_Agency\">Dirk Gently&#8217;s Holistic Detective Agency<\/a>.<\/i> By using clairvoyance to see inside the box, it was found that the cat was neither alive nor dead, but missing, and Dirk&#8217;s services were employed in order to recover it, Dirk deducing that the cat had simply grown tired of being subjected to the experiment and wandered off (Although he admits later on that he was actually using the experiment as an attempt to determine the mental state of his friend Richard Macduff, Richard&#8217;s logical arguments about why the experiment was pointless confirming that he was mentally stable).<\/p>\n<p>In <a title=\"Libba Bray\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libba_Bray\">Libba Bray<\/a>&#8216;s book <i><a title=\"Going Bovine\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Going_Bovine\">Going Bovine<\/a><\/i>, three stoners argue whether the cat is alive or dead, or whether the person who opens the box creates the possibilities. There are constant references to a band called Copenhagen Interpretation, who disappear into thin air in the middle of a benefit concert.<\/p>\n<p>In <a title=\"Adam Felber\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Felber\">Adam Felber<\/a>&#8216;s comic first novel, &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Ball&#8221; (2006), Dr. <a title=\"Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger\">Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger<\/a> is a character, and there is much exploration of <a title=\"Quantum mechanics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_mechanics\">quantum mechanics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat-Sitter&#8221; by <a title=\"F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F._Gwynplaine_MacIntyre\">F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre<\/a> (published in <i><a title=\"Analog Science Fiction and Fact\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact\">Analog<\/a><\/i> magazine, July\/August 2001), a time-traveler named Smedley Faversham visits the past to interview Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger but gets tricked into taking care of Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s wife&#8217;s cat while she is away and Schr\u00f6dinger is visiting <a title=\"Max Planck\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Planck\">Max Planck<\/a>. In attempting to take care of the cat, Faversham inadvertently locks it in a cabinet with a Geiger counter, a vial of acid, and a hammer, unintentionally enacting Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s thought experiment, but with results that remain as uncertain as in the original case.<\/p>\n<p>The title character (though not a main character) of <a title=\"Robert A. Heinlein\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_A._Heinlein\">Robert A. Heinlein<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a title=\"The Cat Who Walks Through Walls\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cat_Who_Walks_Through_Walls\">The Cat Who Walks Through Walls<\/a>&#8220;, a kitten named Pixel is of indeterminate existence, and as such, has the ability to turn up in places that are specifically sealed to outside access. When this ability is questioned, the answer is &#8220;He&#8217;s Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat&#8221;, leading to the response, &#8220;Then Schr\u00f6dinger had better come get him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Glynne MacLean&#8217;s 2009 short story <i>Viennese Meow<\/i> Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat tells his version of the famous thought experiment.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"S.M. Stirling\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S.M._Stirling\">S.M. Stirling<\/a> &#8220;<i><a title=\"T2 (novel series)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T2_%28novel_series%29\">T2<\/a><\/i>&#8221; novel trilogy, <a title=\"John Connor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Connor\">John Connor<\/a> mentally compares his, <a title=\"Skynet (Terminator)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skynet_%28Terminator%29\">Skynet<\/a>&#8216;s technology and ultimately everyone&#8217;s existence to the Schr\u00f6edinger principle of <a title=\"Entropy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entropy\">entropy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a title=\"Hellsing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellsing\">Hellsing<\/a> manga series by <a title=\"Kouta Hirano\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kouta_Hirano\">Kouta Hirano<\/a>, one of the depicted Nazis is an artificial catboy named <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger (Hellsing)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger_%28Hellsing%29\">Schr\u00f6dinger<\/a>. He claims that he is everywhere and nowhere at the same time, which is similar to the cat being alive and dead at the same time.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> It is also said that he can only exist as long as he is aware of himself. In the second anime adaption, he eventually allows himself to be absorbed by the vampire Alucard, which causes his awareness to be clouded. This then spreads to Alucard, who vanishes for thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>On a somewhat more serious level, <a title=\"Ian Stewart (mathematician)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_Stewart_%28mathematician%29\">Ian Stewart&#8217;s<\/a> novel <i><a title=\"Flatterland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatterland\">Flatterland<\/a>,<\/i> (a sequel to <i><a title=\"Flatland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland\">Flatland<\/a><\/i>) attempts to explain many concepts in modern mathematics and physics through the device of having a young female Flatlander explore other parts of the &#8220;Mathiverse&#8221;. Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat is just one of the many strange Mathiverse denizens she and her guide meet; the cat is still uncertain whether it is alive or dead, long after it left the box. Her guide, the Space Hopper, reassures the Cat with a modern view of <a title=\"Quantum decoherence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_decoherence\">quantum decoherence<\/a>. <a title=\"Ursula K. Le Guin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ursula_K._Le_Guin\">Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a> wrote a story entitled &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat&#8221; in 1974 (reprinted in <i><a title=\"The Compass Rose\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Compass_Rose\">The Compass Rose<\/a>,<\/i> published in 1982), which also deals with decoherence. <a title=\"Greg Egan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Egan\">Greg Egan<\/a>&#8216;s novel <i><a title=\"Quarantine (Greg Egan novel)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quarantine_%28Greg_Egan_novel%29\">Quarantine<\/a>,<\/i> billed as &#8220;a story of quantum catastrophe&#8221;, features an alternative solution to the paradox: in Egan&#8217;s version of quantum mechanics, the wave function does <i>not<\/i> collapse naturally. Only certain living things\u2014human beings among them\u2014collapse the wave function of things they observe. Humans are therefore highly dangerous to other lifeforms which require the full diversity of uncollapsed wavefunctions to survive.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2003 novel, <a title=\"Vernon God Little\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vernon_God_Little\">Vernon God Little<\/a> by DBC Pierre, the concept is discussed by the Vernon and Jesus characters. It is erroneously attributed by Jesus to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in the young adult novel <i><a title=\"Will Grayson, Will Grayson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Grayson,_Will_Grayson\">Will Grayson, Will Grayson<\/a><\/i>, by authors John Green and David Levithan, one of the main characters is perplexed by the concept of Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat, and references it throughout the book.<\/p>\n<p>In the play Schrodinger&#8217;s Girlfriend, the future Nobel Prize winner finds himself falling under the spell of cabaret singer and seductress Hansi Haas, who has already had her way with Einstein, Planck and Bohr. As he wrestles with his love and the problems of wave theory, Hass throws him over for Paul Dirac, revealing a truth that holds for both love and quantum physics: &#8220;if you never ask the question, the answer can still be yes.&#8221; (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/63363-World-Premiere-Schrodingers-Girlfriend-Closes-Nov-18-at-San-Frans-Magic\" rel=\"nofollow\">Review of play at Playbill<\/a> <sup id=\"cite_ref-Schrodinger.27s_Girlfriend_5-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Schrodinger.27s_Girlfriend-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/entertainment\/article\/Girlfriend-runs-out-of-inspiration-Ideas-bog-2862061.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Critical review of play at SFGate<\/a> <sup id=\"cite_ref-Schrodinger.27s_Girlfriend_5-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Schrodinger.27s_Girlfriend-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tleft\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Schrodinger_cat_in_box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimage\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/5\/5e\/Schrodinger_cat_in_box.jpg\/300px-Schrodinger_cat_in_box.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture Nr. 2: This artwork by ADA+Neagoe, originally published in Omagiu magazine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumb tleft\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner\">\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">This artwork by <a class=\"new\" title=\"ADA+Neagoe (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=ADA%2BNeagoe&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">ADA+Neagoe<\/a>, originally published in <i><a class=\"new\" title=\"Omagiu (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Omagiu&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Omagiu<\/a><\/i> magazine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In MacSchr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat a 2010 novel by James Conor O&#8217;Brien set in a multi-verse romp across the universes centring around Venice in search of a missing scientific experiment concerning a trans-dimensional cat, Janis Joplin as God, and a panoply of caricatures of physics and physicists ranging from James Clerk Maxwell, Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger to String Theory, the Big Bang and infinitely annoyed monkeys.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span id=\"Animals_other_than_cats\" class=\"mw-headline\">Animals other than cats<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Fiction writers have confined other animals besides cats in such contraptions. Dan Simmons&#8217;s novel <i><a title=\"Hyperion Cantos\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyperion_Cantos#Endymion\">Endymion<\/a><\/i> begins with hero Raul Endymion sentenced to death by imprisonment in a &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger box&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"K\u014dsuke Fujishima\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K%C5%8Dsuke_Fujishima\">K\u014dsuke Fujishima<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"Manga\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manga\">manga<\/a> series <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ah! My Goddess\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ah%21_My_Goddess\">Ah! My Goddess<\/a><\/i> featured a play on Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat. During one storyline, a storage room was expanded to infinite proportions and the main characters encountered a Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Whale, an extremely rare species with the ability to travel through space-time in a five-dimensional quantum state. The male lead in the series, <a title=\"Keiichi Morisato\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keiichi_Morisato\">Keiichi Morisato<\/a>, befriends the whale and teaches it songs by real-life musical group <a title=\"The Carpenters\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Carpenters\">The Carpenters<\/a> (in the original English translation, it was <a title=\"Matthew Sweet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_Sweet\">Matthew Sweet<\/a>) &#8211; but their time spent together is short, for the whale must move on or risk its safety as its wave function collapses. Because of this need to keep moving through quantum states, Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Whales hardly ever meet, the reason they are so thin on the ground\u00a0\u2014 but miraculously, Keiichi secured the future of the species by teaching it the songs. After discovering the whale had gone, he found out that it had learned <a title=\"Only Yesterday (song)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Only_Yesterday_%28song%29\">Only Yesterday<\/a> by itself (<i>Missing Time<\/i> in the translation) &#8211; this gave the whales a call that they could locate each other by.<\/p>\n<p>In <a title=\"Peter Milligan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Milligan\">Peter Milligan<\/a>&#8216;s metaphysical comic <a title=\"Animal Man\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Animal_Man\">Animal Man<\/a>, Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat is explained using a theory of <a title=\"Pizza delivery\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pizza_delivery\">pizza delivery<\/a> mix-ups, resulting in both pepperoni and plain pizzas occupying the unopened box.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Television\" class=\"mw-headline\">Television<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In the <i><a title=\"Stargate SG-1\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stargate_SG-1\">Stargate SG-1<\/a><\/i> episode, &#8220;Enigma&#8221; (1998), <a title=\"Samantha Carter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samantha_Carter\">Samantha Carter<\/a> gives a pet cat named Schr\u00f6dinger to <a title=\"List of recurring alien characters in Stargate SG-1\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_recurring_alien_characters_in_Stargate_SG-1#Narim\">Narim<\/a>. After explaining the name Schr\u00f6dinger, Narim comments that his society calls that concept <i>Kulivrian physics<\/i>. Narim&#8217;s response to Carter&#8217;s inquiry about whether or not he has studied it is: &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;ve studied it&#8230;among other misconceptions of elementary science.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>In the <i><a title=\"Futurama\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Futurama\">Futurama<\/a><\/i> episode, &#8220;Mars University&#8221; (1999), Professor Farnsworth is lecturing on the effects of quantum neutrino fields and the blackboard behind him displays an explanation of &#8220;Superdupersymmetric String Theory&#8221; and a diagram explaining &#8220;Witten&#8217;s Dog&#8221;. Witten&#8217;s Dog, named after <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ed Witten\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Witten\">Ed Witten<\/a>, is a parody of the classic <a title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger's cat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat\">Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat<\/a> paradox. Astrophysicist David Schiminovich created both the equations and the diagram, based on &#8220;an equation that constrains the mass density of neutrinos in the universe&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-The_Age_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-The_Age-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup> Also the episode, &#8220;<a title=\"Law and Oracle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Law_and_Oracle\">Law and Oracle<\/a>&#8221; (2011), features an extended car chase scene in which Police Officer Fry apprehends Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger, who is transporting a box containing &#8220;a cat, some poison and a cesium atom.&#8221; When asked if the cat is alive or dead, Schr\u00f6dinger responds that &#8220;it is a superposition of both states, until you open it and collapse the wave-function.&#8221; Upon opening the box, Fry finds a living cat, who attacks him, while his partner discovers &#8220;there&#8217;s also a lot of drugs in there.&#8221; It is later revealed that the cat has agreed to testify against Schr\u00f6dinger.<\/li>\n<li>In the <i><a title=\"Doctor Who\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Who\">Doctor Who<\/a><\/i> audio adventure <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Zagreus (Doctor Who)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zagreus_%28Doctor_Who%29\">Zagreus<\/a><\/i>, the <a title=\"Eighth Doctor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eighth_Doctor\">Eighth Doctor<\/a> is transformed into the destructive Zagreus after he is exposed to an anti-time explosion after he was forced to use his <a title=\"TARDIS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TARDIS\">TARDIS<\/a> to contain it- anti-time being as destructive to time as anti-matter is to matter-, but shifts between his own personality and the &#8216;Zagreus&#8217; personality, realising that as long as he remains in the TARDIS, the universe cannot decide which personality is in control, noting the similarities between this situation and the Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat experiment.<\/li>\n<li>In the <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Numb3rs\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Numb3rs\">Numb3rs<\/a><\/i> episode &#8220;Identity Crisis&#8221; (2005), Charlie Eppes and Larry Fleinhardt discuss the Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat paradox in relation to how can a man be both guilty and not guilty of a crime.<\/li>\n<li>In the <i><a title=\"Yu-Gi-Oh! GX\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yu-Gi-Oh%21_GX\">Yu-Gi-Oh! GX<\/a><\/i> episode, &#8220;It&#8217;s All Relative&#8221; (2006 Japan, 2007 USA), Dr. Eisenstein uses a card known as &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat&#8221;, which allows him when he draws outside his Draw Phase to shuffle the drawn cards back into his deck and draw the same number of cards again.<\/li>\n<li>In <i><a title=\"The Big Bang Theory\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Bang_Theory\">The Big Bang Theory<\/a><\/i> episode, &#8220;The Tangerine Factor&#8221; (May 19, 2008), <a title=\"Leonard Hofstadter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonard_Hofstadter\">Leonard&#8217;s<\/a> attempt to arrange a date with <a title=\"Penny (The Big Bang Theory)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penny_%28The_Big_Bang_Theory%29\">Penny<\/a> results in both Penny and Leonard&#8217;s seeking <a title=\"Sheldon Cooper\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheldon_Cooper\">Sheldon&#8217;s<\/a> advice. Sheldon advises Penny that &#8220;just like Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat being alive and dead at the same time&#8221;, her date with Leonard currently has both &#8220;good and bad&#8221; probabilistic outcomes. The only way to find out is to &#8220;open the box&#8221;, in other words collapse the wave-function of an uncertain date into a specific outcome. Also, in the episode &#8220;The Russian Rocket Reaction&#8221; (October 13, 2011), Sheldon characterizes his relationship to Leonard as &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s friendship&#8221;, in the sense that Leonard is simultaneously his friend and mortal enemy (as he may or may not attend Wil Wheaton&#8217;s party). When Sheldon tries to explain the paradox to Penny, she gives an approximate description: &#8220;&#8230;] there&#8217;s this cat in a box and until you open it, it&#8217;s either dead or alive or both [&#8230;]&#8221;. Penny references it during a brief conversation with her new boyfriend in &#8220;The Codpiece Topology&#8221; (September 29, 2008), and Leonard references it during lunch with the guys in &#8220;The Bus Pants Utilization&#8221; (January 6, 2011).<\/li>\n<li>In Season 1, episode 6 of <i><a title=\"FlashForward\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FlashForward\">FlashForward<\/a><\/i>, &#8220;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Scary Monsters and Super Creeps (FlashForward)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scary_Monsters_and_Super_Creeps_%28FlashForward%29\">Scary Monsters and Super Creeps<\/a>&#8221; (2009), Simon references Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat as he is trying to explain why the blackouts happened. He describes it using the metaphor of holding a tiny cat in a closed hand with a poisoned sardine. If the cat eats the sardine, he will die; if not, he will live. But the outcome will be unknown until the hand is opened. Until then, the cat may be both <a title=\"Quantum superposition\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_superposition\">alive and dead simultaneously<\/a>, with reality ultimately being decided upon the <a title=\"Observer effect (physics)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Observer_effect_%28physics%29\">intrusion of an observer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Charlie Brooker\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlie_Brooker\">Charlie Brooker<\/a>, on his program <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Newswipe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newswipe\">Newswipe<\/a><\/i> (2009), refers to the media coverage of Jade Goody&#8217;s death as paradoxical in the same way that Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat is. He shows a visual metaphor using a stuffed cat to explain, then comments,&#8221;But that&#8217;s the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics for you.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Nearly a third of an episode of the series, <i><a title=\"Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sayonara,_Zetsubou-Sensei\">Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei<\/a><\/i> is devoted to Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat, referencing it in the way that there are infinite possibilities for anything in a box. Examples include Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s lunch box (which may or may not have mold), Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s boxed-wives (which could all possibly be ideal), and refusing to face reality (by boxing things with possibly bad outcomes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In <i><a title=\"Space Dandy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Dandy\">Space Dandy<\/a>&#8216;s<\/i> season 2 episode &#8220;I can&#8217;t be the only one, Baby&#8221;, which centers around <a title=\"String theory\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/String_theory\">string theory<\/a>, one of the alternate dimension versions of main character Meow is a Schr\u00f6dingarian, an alien race composed by literal Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cats.<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Film\" class=\"mw-headline\">Film<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In <i><a title=\"A Serious Man\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Serious_Man\">A Serious Man<\/a><\/i> (2009), written by the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Coen Brothers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coen_Brothers\">Coen Brothers<\/a>, protagonist Larry Gopnik mentions Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat in a discussion about the unpredictability of future events.<\/li>\n<li>In <i><a title=\"Repo Men\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Repo_Men\">Repo Men<\/a><\/i> (2010), <a title=\"Jude Law\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jude_Law\">Jude Law<\/a>&#8216;s character mentions the Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat example in the beginning of the movie.<\/li>\n<li>In <i><a class=\"new\" title=\"6 Films to Keep You Awake: The Baby's Room (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=6_Films_to_Keep_You_Awake:_The_Baby%27s_Room&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">6 Films to Keep You Awake: The Baby&#8217;s Room<\/a><\/i> (2006), a Spanish made-for-TV movie, a journalist, Domingo, describes Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat to the protagonist, Juan, in order to explain the existence of parallel worlds.<\/li>\n<li>In <i><a title=\"The Prestige\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Prestige\">The Prestige<\/a><\/i> (2006), Nikola Tesla uses a cat to demonstrate a machine he makes for The Great Danton.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Prince of Darkness (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_of_Darkness_%28film%29\"><i>Prince of Darkness<\/i><\/a> (1987), Walter and Catherine have a discussion about Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat, with Catherine understanding and Walter not.<\/li>\n<li>In the made for television movie <a title=\"Mean Girls 2\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mean_Girls_2\">Mean Girls 2<\/a> one of the characters wears a shirt written &#8220;Save the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger's Cat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_Cat\">Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>In the short film &#8220;<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hGzRtIKrfhA\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dead and Alive<\/a>&#8221; (2013) by Desert Eagle Pictures, the situation of the main character Cynthia runs parallel in many ways to that of the Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat thought experiment. The distinction is most evident in the classroom scene, where a high school physics teacher gives a lecture on the aforementioned feline.<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup>]<\/li>\n<li>In the low-budget science fiction movie <a title=\"Coherence (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coherence_%28film%29\">Coherence_(film)<\/a> Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat is the principle driving the alternative universes that occur during the movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Video_games\" class=\"mw-headline\">Video games<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Digital Devil Saga\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_Devil_Saga\">Digital Devil Saga<\/a><\/i>, a game produced by <a title=\"Atlus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlus\">Atlus<\/a>, there is an enigmatic cat-like creature revealed to have some connection to God, whom the main character can see throughout the games. His name is &#8216;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Wild Arms 3\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wild_Arms_3\">Wild Arms 3<\/a>, the character of Shady the Cat, owned by a Maya Schr\u00f6dinger, is based on Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat, and is claustrophobic as a result of the &#8220;experiment.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In <i><a title=\"NetHack\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NetHack\">NetHack<\/a><\/i>, one of the monsters encountered in this roguelike game is called &#8216;Quantum Mechanic&#8217;, which often carries a chest. The chest either contains a cat corpse, or causes a cat to appear. Reading the source code to the game also reveals that the game does not determine the state of the cat until the chest is opened.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Pop'n Music\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop%27n_Music\">Pop&#8217;n Music<\/a>, a song titled Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat was composed by <a title=\"Tomosuke Funaki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tomosuke_Funaki\">Tomosuke Funaki<\/a> for the arcade version of <a title=\"Pop'n Music\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop%27n_Music\">Pop&#8217;n Music<\/a> 16 PARTY. It is credited to being the first 43 in any arcade Pop&#8217;n Music game, the highest difficulty level in the series.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Portal (video game)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal_%28video_game%29\">Portal<\/a>, <a title=\"GLaDOS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GLaDOS\">GLaDOS<\/a> tried to replicate the experiment with the scientists from Aperture Science, and she settled that the cat was dead. In the ending of its sequel, <a title=\"Portal 2\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal_2\">Portal 2<\/a>, the <a title=\"Characters of Portal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Characters_of_Portal#Personality_Cores_2\">Fact Sphere<\/a> might say &#8220;The Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schr\u00f6dinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats.&#8221; In the publicity web-comic for the game, the fate of the protagonist Chell is a reference to Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat. <a title=\"GLaDOS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GLaDOS\">GLaDOS<\/a> also mentions a &#8220;bring your cat to work day&#8221; and that she has the boxes and the neurotoxins (poison) and just needs the cats. There is also an achievement called Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Catch, in which the player catches a blue box before it touches the ground, after being broken out of a glass receptacle.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Rock Band\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_Band\">Rock Band<\/a>, a daily battle of the bands was entitled Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat. It featured the songs &#8220;<a title=\"Alive (Pearl Jam song)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alive_%28Pearl_Jam_song%29\">Alive<\/a>&#8221; by <a title=\"Pearl Jam\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pearl_Jam\">Pearl Jam<\/a>, &#8220;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Dead (Pixies song)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_%28Pixies_song%29\">Dead<\/a>&#8221; by <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"The Pixies\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pixies\">The Pixies<\/a> and &#8220;<a title=\"Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi song)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wanted_Dead_or_Alive_%28Bon_Jovi_song%29\">Wanted Dead or Alive<\/a>&#8221; by <a title=\"Bon Jovi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bon_Jovi\">Bon Jovi<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In <a class=\"new\" title=\"Gundeadligne (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Gundeadligne&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Gundeadligne<\/a>, the first stage is &#8220;Le chat noir de Schr\u00f6dinger &#8211; Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Black Cat&#8221;, This stage&#8217;s boss is called &#8220;Chatnoir&#8221;, whose appearance is that of a Cat girl (nekomimi).<sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>In <a class=\"new\" title=\"Elements the Game (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Elements_the_Game&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Elements the Game<\/a>, Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat is an Entropy creature that has an ability Dead and Alive. This activates death effects without killing the cat.<\/li>\n<li>In the <a title=\"Visual novel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visual_novel\">visual novel<\/a> <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Umineko no Naku Koro ni\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umineko_no_Naku_Koro_ni\">Umineko no Naku Koro ni<\/a><\/i>, episode 3, the main character Battler uses Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat in his battle against the witch Beatrice to deny the existence of magic. The remainder of the visual novel continuously refers to this as &#8220;cat box&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"BlazBlue: Continuum Shift\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BlazBlue:_Continuum_Shift\">BlazBlue: Continuum Shift<\/a>, after a fight between Tager and Lambda-11, during Tager&#8217;s storyline, Kokonoe references Lambda-11 and Tager being similar to two Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cats. Also Terumi is both dead and alive, and can only exist as long as he is being observed, but in this case being observed might be an emotional response to his actions.<\/li>\n<li>In <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Bioshock 2\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bioshock_2\">Bioshock 2<\/a>, hidden within a mass of ice, there is a deceased cat. Upon melting the ice and closely examining it, the display reads &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zero_Escape:_Virtue%27s_Last_Reward\">Zero Escape: Virtue&#8217;s Last Reward<\/a>, there is a book named Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat in one room, and the thought experiment is eventually used in two parts of the game&#8217;s plot; the identity of the masked person known as K is different in different endings, and whether or not the old woman is dead or alive also depends on the ending.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Borderlands 2\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borderlands_2\">Borderlands 2<\/a>, Patricia Tannis makes mention of Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s &#8220;zombie cat&#8221; being to blame when describing the possibility that digistructed loot chests might contain either great loot or &#8220;nothing but crappy white shields&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghost_Trick:_Phantom_Detective\">Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective<\/a>, we have two examples: Yomiel, the original bad guy, who was a man that was neither alive nor dead, as his body constantly regenerated because of the powere of a meteorite that entered his back and lodged in his heart; and Sissel which becomes a more literal example after going 10 years in the past to save his master Yomiel from such fate, but in turn the meteorite lodged inside the black cat himself, allowing him to be both dead and alive.<\/li>\n<li>In <a class=\"new\" title=\"PuzzleCraft (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=PuzzleCraft&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">PuzzleCraft<\/a>, when farming, a treasure chest will occasionally contain one cat. The first time this happens the player unlocks the &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat&#8221; achievement.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Final Fantasy XIII-2\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Final_Fantasy_XIII-2\">Final Fantasy XIII-2<\/a> and <a title=\"Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lightning_Returns:_Final_Fantasy_XIII\">Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII<\/a>, there is a subspecies of the popular &#8216;Cait Sith&#8217; creature called &#8216;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;. It appears as a grey cat sitting in a llght blue pot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Web_comics\" class=\"mw-headline\">Web comics<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the earliest <a title=\"Xkcd\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xkcd\">xkcd<\/a> strips, titled &#8220;<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/45\" rel=\"nofollow\">Schrodinger<\/a>&#8220;, is based on <a title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger's cat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat\">Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s paradox<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-Schrodinger_11-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Schrodinger-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dresden Codak\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dresden_Codak\">Dresden Codak<\/a> features a <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger\">Schr\u00f6dinger<\/a> strip<sup id=\"cite_ref-Trouble_in_Memphis_12-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Trouble_in_Memphis-12\">[12]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>LukeSurl.com features a <a title=\"Charles Dickens\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Dickens\">Charles Dickens<\/a> and Schr\u00f6dinger strip<sup id=\"cite_ref-076_-_What_the_Dickens.3F_13-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-076_-_What_the_Dickens.3F-13\">[13]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/ars.userfriendly.org\/cartoons\/?id=20030427\" rel=\"nofollow\">UserFriendly.org<\/a> featured a single pane comic about the state of the cat as being the only legitimate use for an HTML blink tag.<sup id=\"cite_ref-HTML_Lesson_42_14-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-HTML_Lesson_42-14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Cyanide and Happiness\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyanide_and_Happiness\">Cyanide and Happiness<\/a> features a &#8220;90% of the General Public Won&#8217;t Understand Week&#8221;, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explosm.net\/comics\/949\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Strip<\/a> with a reference to <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger\">Schr\u00f6dinger<\/a> and his <a title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger's cat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat\">cat<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-comic949_15-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-comic949-15\">[15]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a title=\"Toothpaste for Dinner\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toothpaste_for_Dinner\">Toothpaste for Dinner<\/a>&#8221; by Drew Fairweather has featured parodies of Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat, including <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toothpastefordinner.com\/041205\/schroedingers-decaf.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Decaf&#8221;<\/a> in 2005 and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toothpastefordinner.com\/062309\/schrodingers-present.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s birthday present&#8221;<\/a> in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>The website <a class=\"new\" title=\"Abstruse Goose (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Abstruse_Goose&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Abstruse Goose<\/a> features a series of comics &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Miscalculation&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-Schr.C3.B6dinger.E2.80.99s_Infinitesimal_Miscalculation_16-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Schr.C3.B6dinger.E2.80.99s_Infinitesimal_Miscalculation-16\">[16]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Schr.C3.B6dinger.E2.80.99s_Miscalculation_Part_2_17-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Schr.C3.B6dinger.E2.80.99s_Miscalculation_Part_2-17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Schr.C3.B6dinger.E2.80.99s_.28emotional.29_Miscalculation_Part_3_18-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Schr.C3.B6dinger.E2.80.99s_.28emotional.29_Miscalculation_Part_3-18\">[18]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Order of the Stick\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Order_of_the_Stick\">The Order of the Stick<\/a> features a strip about &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Ninjas&#8221; in its first book.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Questionable Content\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Questionable_Content\">Questionable Content<\/a> mentions Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat in its own absurd extrapolation from the <a title=\"Copenhagen interpretation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copenhagen_interpretation\">Copenhagen interpretation<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-Number_715_19-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Number_715-19\">[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/HelloWithCheese.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hello With Cheese<\/a> did a joke about &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Fart&#8221; in their very <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dernwerks.com\/HWC\/?p=5\" rel=\"nofollow\">first comic, January 5th, 2009<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Zach Weiner\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zach_Weiner\">Zach Weiner<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saturday_Morning_Breakfast_Cereal\">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal<\/a> features a one panel misunderstanding Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat,<sup id=\"cite_ref-SMBC_Schrodinger_973_20-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-SMBC_Schrodinger_973-20\">[20]<\/a><\/sup> as well as a contrast between the actual meaning of the absurdity of the paradox and how it is popularly interpreted.<sup id=\"cite_ref-SMBC_Schrodinger_2524_21-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-SMBC_Schrodinger_2524-21\">[21]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"new\" title=\"Patrick Connelly's (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Patrick_Connelly%27s&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Patrick Connelly&#8217;s<\/a> <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Schr\u00f6dinger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger\">Schr\u00f6dinger<\/a> features comics around Schr\u00f6dinger the cat<sup id=\"cite_ref-Number_716_22-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Number_716-22\">[22]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"MS Paint Adventures\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS_Paint_Adventures\">MS Paint Adventures<\/a>, in an extra from the Problem Sleuth adventure, the Midnight Crew used Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat to deal with a meddlesome wasp.<sup id=\"cite_ref-MSPA_Schrodinger_23-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-MSPA_Schrodinger-23\">[23]<\/a><\/sup> The fate of Nepeta Leijon of <a title=\"Homestuck\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homestuck\">Homestuck<\/a> also references Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat.<\/li>\n<li>In <a class=\"new\" title=\"Irregular Webcomic (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Irregular_Webcomic&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Irregular Webcomic<\/a>, the MythBusters test the Copenhagen interpretation by conducting the thought experiment in practice in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irregularwebcomic.net\/2846.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">these<\/a> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irregularwebcomic.net\/comic.php?current=2853\" rel=\"nofollow\">strips<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/deathbyorphans.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Laika &amp; Qubit<\/a> is a weekly web comic featuring Soviet space dog, <a title=\"Laika\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laika\">Laika<\/a>, and Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat, Qubit, on a surreal adventure by Paul K. Tunis.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Brewster Rockit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brewster_Rockit\">Brewster Rockit<\/a> comic in one of the &#8220;Rockit Science&#8221; theme Sunday Comic strip opens the box with comic results and has the great line of &#8220;This Rockit Science moment is brought to you by the makers of Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat-litter box. If you don&#8217;t observe it, you don&#8217;t have to change it.&#8221; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/imgsrv.gocomics.com\/dim\/?fh=a3465d34c4c480b4bed62ff80dadd69f\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brewster Rockit comic where they open the box to &#8220;settle this once and for all&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/thenoobcomic.com\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Noob Comic<\/a>, Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat is featured on a blackboard in a lecture about how to exploit Clichequest&#8217;s (the game the comic takes place in) bugs using string theory; the drawing of the box with the cat in it accompanied by the question &#8220;If dead, does it drop any loot?&#8221;.<sup id=\"cite_ref-The_Noob_Comic_24-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-The_Noob_Comic-24\">[24]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Facebook.com\/GoblynsComics\" rel=\"nofollow\">GoblynsComics<\/a> featured Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat, &#8220;out of the bag&#8221;, in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/goblynscomics.com\/20130325_schrodingers_cat.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">March 29, 2013 comic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Facebook.com\/hehehohahaha\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stupidity and Bliss<\/a> featured Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s catfish, &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s box&#8221;, in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hehehohahaha\/photos\/a.238298749527886.65228.207123209312107\/869262296431525\/?type=1&amp;theater\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nov 11, 2014 comic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dilbert\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dilbert\">Dilbert<\/a> featured Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat in some comics in 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2013-06-06\" rel=\"nofollow\">This<\/a> comic in June where the cat is referred to as a <a title=\"Zombie\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zombie\">zombie<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-Dilbert_Daily_Comic_25-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Dilbert_Daily_Comic-25\">[25]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2013-06-07\" rel=\"nofollow\">This<\/a> comic in June where the cat discusses the <a title=\"Afterlife\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afterlife\">afterlife<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-Dilbert_Daily_Comic_25-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Dilbert_Daily_Comic-25\">[25]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2013-12-25\" rel=\"nofollow\">This<\/a> comic in December where <a title=\"Dogbert\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dogbert\">Dogbert<\/a> presents Dilbert with the cat as a <a title=\"Christmas Gift\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_Gift\">Christmas Gift<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-Dilbert_Daily_Comic_25-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-Dilbert_Daily_Comic-25\">[25]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h2><span id=\"Music\" class=\"mw-headline\">Music<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Eyedea\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eyedea\">Eyedea<\/a>: On the &#8220;Infrared Roses&#8221; track from his 2001 CD, <i><a title=\"The Many Faces of Oliver Hart\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Many_Faces_of_Oliver_Hart\">The Many Faces of Oliver Hart<\/a><\/i>, Eyedea proclaims, &#8220;The curiosity that killed Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat was the only thing that kept it alive, matter of fact&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Rosengarten: On his 2007 CD, <i>Schrodinger&#8217;s Cat Strikes Back<\/i>, this high-school chemistry teacher <sup id=\"cite_ref-26\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-26\">[26]<\/a><\/sup> performs a song that humorously depicts Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat getting her revenge for such a diabolical idea.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tears for Fears\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tears_for_Fears\">Tears for Fears<\/a>: The track titled, &#8220;Schrodinger&#8217;s Cat&#8221;, is featured as a B-side on Tears for Fears&#8217; single, &#8220;<a title=\"Break It Down Again\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Break_It_Down_Again\">Break It Down Again<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ghost_of_a_Saber_Tooth_Tiger\">The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger<\/a>: Sean Lennon (son of John) and Charlotte Kemp Muhl released a song entitled &#8220;Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat&#8221; on their 2010 album &#8220;Acoustic Sessions.&#8221; The lyrics apply principles from quantum mechanics to relationships with the line, &#8220;Can&#8217;t be sure that I exist when you are not around.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The song <a title=\"Ethernaut\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethernaut\">Love and Hatred<\/a> by <a title=\"The Cr\u00fcxshadows\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cr%C3%BCxshadows\">The Cr\u00fcxshadows<\/a> features the lyrics, &#8220;Can you hear the cat within the box, can you hear electrons moving free, watching something, watching nothing, in status somewhere in between&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian underground metal-band <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/codeveronicaxkalush1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Code Veronica<\/a> released a song entitled <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lastfm.ru\/music\/Code+Veronica\/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D1%8F+%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BD\/Shroedinger%27s+Cat+%28feat.+x_Remytia_x%29\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Shroedinger&#8217;s Cat (feat. x_Remytia_x)&#8221;<\/a> on their 2009 album &#8220;\u0422\u0435\u043e\u0440\u0456\u044f \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0443\u043d&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The 1994 album &#8220;You Forgot To Answer&#8221; by <a title=\"Barry Guy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barry_Guy\">Barry Guy<\/a>, <a title=\"Mats Gustafsson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mats_Gustafsson\">Mats Gustafsson<\/a> and Raymond Strid features a track called &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Merchandise\" class=\"mw-headline\">Merchandise<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ecommerce\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecommerce\">ecommerce<\/a> website <a title=\"ThinkGeek\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ThinkGeek\">ThinkGeek<\/a> sells a <a title=\"T-shirt\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-shirt\">t-shirt<\/a> based on the Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat experiment.<sup id=\"cite_ref-27\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-27\">[27]<\/a><\/sup> One side of the shirt reads, &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat is dead.&#8221; The other side reads, &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat is not dead.&#8221; This parodies the concept of the cat being both dead and alive. The site also sells a shirt for women which reads &#8220;Hello Schroddy&#8221;, and features a white box with a red bow, being a play on both Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat and Hello Kitty.<sup id=\"cite_ref-28\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-28\">[28]<\/a><\/sup> The description reads, &#8220;This might not be Hello Kitty. It might be Goodbye Kitty. We cannot possibly know without observing, and then we change the outcome.&#8221; ThinkGeek also sells a box with a sliding door, which activates an internal electronic display to show an animation of either a living or deceased cat.<sup id=\"cite_ref-29\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-29\">[29]<\/a><\/sup> The box has a sign reading &#8220;WARNING: MAY OR MAY NOT CONTAIN LIVE ANIMAL&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The website <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Shirt.woot!\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shirt.woot%21\">Shirt.woot!<\/a> offers four shirts based on the cat. First, a psychedelic t-shirt based on the cat;<sup id=\"cite_ref-30\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-30\">[30]<\/a><\/sup> second, a t-shirt featuring the formula as a <a title=\"Calligram\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calligram\">calligram<\/a> in the shape of a cat;<sup id=\"cite_ref-31\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-31\">[31]<\/a><\/sup> third, The Cat in the Box by Dr. Schr\u00f6dinger, a parody of Dr. Seuss&#8217; Cat in the Hat.;<sup id=\"cite_ref-32\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-32\">[32]<\/a><\/sup> fourth, a <a title=\"Venn diagram\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venn_diagram\">Venn diagram<\/a>, with the cat in the intersection between alive and dead.<sup id=\"cite_ref-33\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-33\">[33]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The website <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"SnorgTees\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SnorgTees\">SnorgTees<\/a> sells a shirt displaying a wanted poster that reads: &#8220;Schrodinger&#8217;s Cat: Wanted Dead &amp; Alive.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-34\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-34\">[34]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The website TeeTurtle sells a shirt with a glow-in-the-dark design that has a cat and reads &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat Is ALIVE&#8221; when bright; the eyes cross out and reverts to read &#8220;Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat Is DEAD&#8221; in the dark.<sup id=\"cite_ref-35\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-35\">[35]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Politics\" class=\"mw-headline\">Politics<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Huffposthill reported, &#8220;Between 1999 and 2002, <a title=\"Mitt Romney\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\">Mitt Romney<\/a> was somehow in charge of Bain and not in charge of Bain, making him the Schrodinger&#8217;s cat of corporate executives&#8221;, referring to the discrepancy between what Romney said about his involvement in <a title=\"Bain Capital\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bain_Capital\">Bain Capital<\/a> after 1999 and what was actually reported by Bain Capital documentation.<sup id=\"cite_ref-36\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture#cite_note-36\">[36]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"References\" class=\"mw-headline\">References<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"cite_note-1\"><span class=\"reference-text\"><a title=\"Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger\">E. Schr\u00f6dinger<\/a>, <i>Die gegenw\u00e4rtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik, Naturwissenschaftern.<\/i> 23: pp. 807\u2013812; 823\u2013823, 844\u2013849. (1935). English translation: John D. Trimmer, <i>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society<\/i> 124, pp. 323\u201338 (1980), reprinted in <i>Quantum Theory and Measurement,<\/i> p. 152 (1983).<\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-100CCC-2\"><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-100CCC-2\"><span class=\"reference-text\"><span class=\"citation book\">Sam Stall (2007-05-01). <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/?id=coXIF8WbEKEC\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>100 Cats Who Changed Civilization<\/i><\/a>. p.\u00a034. <a title=\"International Standard Book Number\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Standard_Book_Number\">ISBN<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Special:BookSources\/978-1-59474-163-0\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-59474-163-0\">978-1-59474-163-0<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-3\"><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-3\"><span class=\"reference-text\"><span class=\"citation web\"><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glynne.co.nz\/VienneseMeow.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Viennese Meow&#8221;<\/a>. <i>Prima Storia<\/i>. 31 January 2009<span class=\"reference-accessdate\">. Retrieved <span class=\"nowrap\">7 November<\/span> 2014<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-4\"><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-4\"><span class=\"reference-text\">Kouta Hirano, Hellsing: Volume 4. Panini Manga und Comic<\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-Schrodinger.27s_Girlfriend-5\"><\/li>\n<li id=\"cite_note-Schrodinger.27s_Girlfriend-5\"><span class=\"reference-text\"><span class=\"citation web\"><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/63363-World-Premiere-Schrodingers-Girlfriend-Closes-Nov-18-at-San-Frans-Magic\" rel=\"nofollow\">Review of play at Playbill &#8220;Playbill Review&#8221;<\/a>. <i>Schrodingers Girlfriend<\/i><span class=\"reference-accessdate\">. 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