A little ditty...
Sep. 22nd, 2006 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Schrodinger's cat and Wigner's friend
Cause us problems without end
The cat is both alive and dead
In math that is stuck in our head
And the regression of Von Neumann
Never ceases to annoy Man
The uncertainty just has no end
Until Wigner goes to tell his friend
For, until the friend recieves the news
That the cat still purrs and mews
The cat remains (suspended Fate!)
In some formal Eigenstate
But if Wigner makes a beeline
To report the now-dead feline
All the friend can really know
Is just one branch of time's swift flow
For in Carter's multispace
Every time-branch has its place
So the cat remains alive
In the half cases (that's .5)
Lead us not to Copenhagen
Nor to Shylock, nor to Fagin
"The result's not parsimonious!"
Yet I find it quite harmonious
Cause us problems without end
The cat is both alive and dead
In math that is stuck in our head
And the regression of Von Neumann
Never ceases to annoy Man
The uncertainty just has no end
Until Wigner goes to tell his friend
For, until the friend recieves the news
That the cat still purrs and mews
The cat remains (suspended Fate!)
In some formal Eigenstate
But if Wigner makes a beeline
To report the now-dead feline
All the friend can really know
Is just one branch of time's swift flow
For in Carter's multispace
Every time-branch has its place
So the cat remains alive
In the half cases (that's .5)
Lead us not to Copenhagen
Nor to Shylock, nor to Fagin
"The result's not parsimonious!"
Yet I find it quite harmonious