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Curious Universe Killed The Cat
A poem based on Schrodinger's cat, a thought experiment often described as a paradox.
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Its a poem based on Schrodinger's cat. Schrodinger's cat is a thought experiment, often described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. He proposed a scenario with a cat in a sealed box, wherein the cat's life or death was dependent on the state of a subatomic particle. According to Schrodinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead (to the universe outside the box) until the box is opened.

so basically the take away from all that is the cat is both alive and dead inside the box until you look inside the box. This is like a conversation of the universe and the cat (because to the universe the cat is both alive and dead). The cat is sort of mocking the universe and also worried it will look into the box


Smiling cat grinning ear to ear,
Don't you know the end is near?

Trapped in this container here,
Immediate danger down in there.

The cat replies sinisterly,
It matters not, don't look at me!

Peek inside to your dismay,
Rotting corpse I will lay!

In a bind I may be,
As the universe ponders me.

Are you live or are you dead?
Dare I open filled with dread?

To see the picture in my head!
In my mind I can't comprehend.

In your mind I both can be
Just don't peek inside and look at me!
                                     
Oh wise the universe may be,               
Don't you know where curiosity leads?
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