If you are reading this, it is the result of a frustrated patent clerk in Germany writing and rewriting equations that would eventually be published as "The Photoelectric Effect" that ushered in the modern television, solar energy as an alternative to fossil fuels, the GPS on my phone, flat screen TVs and thin film for flat screen cellular phone technology.
Also, the "Tweeting"; and "FB updating" is brought to you by:
Actually, a bit of Einstein and the guy caricatured on the right.
I just like Dr. Seuss (I remember reading "and" in "Green Eggs and Ham" on my mother's knee at the age of three). The juggling seemed similar to the paradox Erwin Schrodinger tried to describe what physicist refer to as wave-particle duality, both being just as real as the other.
The cat (see the links below) is both living and dead until an observer looks at it. Once you substantiate its reality, you will in turn "collapse" its wave function.
Example: you can think of light as waves, or individually as photons (quanta) of energy.
Strange, I know. I am strange: I majored in physics. You're reading this...hmm.
And, it will be modern physics/quantum mechanics that will make our current technology in a few years obsolete.
My purpose is to excite you not just to be a consumer: but a producer of that eventual, planned, technological obsolescence. It can be quite lucrative...
Links:
The Molecular Octopus: the Little Brother to Schrodinger's Cat
Nature Journal Article
A humorous and less violent Schrodinger cat simulation for cat lovers (like me)
A little more graphic (yet cartoonish) explanation from Cornell
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