Wednesday, August 29, 2007

missing link

A monumentous conclusion was reached today in unlikely circumstances. During a conversation in the Terrace Cafe, Wentworth Building, University of Sydney, it was realised that the missing evolutionary link is, in fact, Schrödinger's cat. Schrödinger's cat is in a box with a dangerous radioactive source, but nobody can look inside the box, hence nobody knows whether the cat is alive or dead. More to the point, there is a finite probably that it is alive, and a finite probability that it is dead. But who can say that the animal within the box is actually a cat at all? Nobody can say "it's a cat" with complete certainty since they themselves can't look inside the box. Hence there's a finite probability that it's a cat, a finite probability that it's a dog, and a finite probability that it's the missing evolutionary link that scientists worldwide are searching for desperately. Who would have thought that the reason they can't find it was that poor old Schrödinger just nonchalantly put it in a box nobody can look into...

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