Schrödinger opens the box and nothing changes.
The cat lacks vital signs (no heartbeat, no breathing, no brain function): the cat is dead.
The cat exhibits continued animation (blinking, walking, nudging his hand with its little head): the cat is alive.
Schrödinger is afraid.
That has not changed, either.
#oh this is perfect#it was schrödinger’s mocking pseudo-thought experiment#meant to puncture & deny all the idiot scientists who believed a cat could be simultaneously alive & dead#because it was demanded by their model of quantum mechanics#but think of schrödinger the victim of his own theoretical fancy#experiencing all those quantum divergences at once#surrounded by dead-alive people#actual and aborted worlds flickering in and out of view like faulty neon lights#[war revolution apocalypse; real and not real]#stumbling when the ground under his feet becomes pocked scorched earth; then pavement again#and the vision of a cat pursuing him through the dark with hateful eyes [now yellow; now hollow] that say#did you kill me schrödinger#did you kill me (x)