Muse of Meow, Meow … by Pravat Kumar Padhy
fog outside
Schrödinger’s cat
I wish it alive
Sciku
Project, 20 July 2025 (Ed. Andrew Holmes)
Erwin Schrödinger
(1887-1961) was an Austrian-Irish Physicist. His landmark research on wave
function led to the theory of ‘quantum entanglement’, which he coined in 1935.
He imagined an
experiment in which a hypothetical cat was placed inside a sealed box with a
flask of poison and a radioactive source. The thought experiment defined that
the cat remained in a quantum superposition state of being dead and alive until
one opened the box and observed it. This led to the much-debated quantum
physics of modern times.
Further reading:
‘Schrödinger’s cat’, Wikipedia article,
available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
‘Erwin Schrödinger’, Wikipedia article,
available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger
Author bio:
Pravat Kumar Padhy,
based in Bhubaneswar, India, holds a Master of Science and a Ph.D from Indian
Institute of Technology, ISM Dhanbad. He is a mainstream poet and a writer of
Japanese short forms of poetry. His essay “Haiku: The Poetry of Science and
Soul” will be featured this year in the UK-based journal, Presence.
He served as a panel judge of ‘The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards for
Individual Poems.’
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