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TrainedChicken
10-12-2005, 08:36 PM
What do you think? My wife is sure he's dead.
Muffin Man No9
10-12-2005, 09:16 PM
Who's Schroedinger's Cat?
mitey
10-12-2005, 11:12 PM
The gas spirited it to another dimension! :rolleyes:
TrainedChicken
10-13-2005, 01:20 AM
Muffin Man, I thought for sure you were erudite enough to have been familiarized withe the classic gedanken about the cat in the box. I'll leave it to someone not a dummy to explain it, since I"m a boy of very little brain.
dark_knight_307
10-15-2005, 05:21 PM
.... right. No idea what's going on.

:confused:
Sibtiger
10-15-2005, 06:02 PM
The cat is both dead and alive, since we don't know for sure. The longer it stays in a box without food, the higher percentage of dead it will be, but until we look it will always be at least 1% alive.

Right?
dark_knight_307
10-15-2005, 06:47 PM
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci341236,00.html

AHA! But about the poll, did it bite what?
mitey
10-15-2005, 07:27 PM
The dust. Did it bite it (the dust)?
dark_knight_307
10-15-2005, 08:13 PM
Oh. Right. :shame:
TrainedChicken
10-16-2005, 10:15 PM
Here's more tantalizing evidence:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32293
fizzydapony
10-30-2005, 05:08 PM
damit.....i wanna know! lets just break open the box already!!! oh yeah...and i say that hes not 'both', but only that we can't determine which he is. because a cat can never be both dead and alive, but his fate may be indetermible. therefore, im not partaking in this poll, because none of the options are correct.....well, actually one is. either dead or alive. sonce theyre opposites its impossible not to be one or the other, but it is possible to be one and an outside entity (the ppl waiting outside the box) to not know which it is, though it definately is one.


theres my 2 cents......