Wanted Dead And Alive:
Schrodinger’s Cat.
OK. This is a totally geek shirt dealing with quantum mechanics and a theory set forth by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It’s supposed to be a paradox to counter the then-popular Copenhagen theory.
Schrödinger’s Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.
In other words, if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound? Hey, I bet the animal rights people like that experiment better!
Really great shirt if you want to impress the more brainy ladies!
Now I know there is such a thing as “too smart.”