Talk:Schrödinger's cat in popular culture
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Appeal to put YTMND on the whitelist
editHi, i tried to add this line but the domain ytmnd is blocked.
- YTMND features a site called "Schrödinger Explains YTMND: A Quantum NEDM" using one interpretation of the Schrodinger's cat paradox to explore the plausibility YTMND's so called alternative universes.[1]
LOLcat
edit[1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.204.215 (talk) 22:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
WebComics
editI know of at least one WebComic, xkcd, which makes reference to the Schrödinger's Cat concept, devoting an entire strip to it. http://xkcd.com/45/
I Play RS (talk) 00:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
There's also Cyanide and Happiness: http://www.explosm.net/comics/949/ 66.157.151.84 (talk) 12:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
The Dark Knight
editAnyone else feel that this section is not a reference to Schrodinger's Cat in pop culture? Sure, if you set up a wave function of the Dent/Dawes scenario, it could resemble the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment, but to say the scene is a reference to it - that would be like saying that the scene in Point Break where they sky dive is a reference to Sir Issac Newton.
I'm removing it, and if anyone disagrees, please revert and engage in a discussion.
Oh, and to the user who mentions the R.A.W. oversight - I referenced it in the previous talk-topic. Nice oversight.
Cleanup
editThis page could really use some cleanup; its current state with numerous unnecessary one-paragraph sections, which are largely unsourced or based on non-notable material, is quite worrisome. —Admiral Norton (talk) 21:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Introduction
editI think that the introduction here suffers from its probable source in the Schrödinger's cat article. See my discussion there under Off the track again. He invented quantum mechanics. He wasn't trying to disprove it. Only to improve on the Copenhagen Interpretation, which he felt (I think correctly) deviated unnecessarily from his central mathematical formalism. David R. Ingham (talk) 23:40, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
A Serious Man and The Big Bang Theory
editSchroedinger's car is referenced by both the Coen brothers' movie A Serious Man and the comedy TV show about physicists: The Big Bang Theory. -NeF (talk) 02:03, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Oversight in Popular Literature
editUrsula K. LeGuin's short story "Schrodinger's Cat" has been completely left off the page and yet I think it's one of the most referenced/taught allusions to Schrodinger's Cat in literature.
Christopher Stasheff's "A Wizard in Rhyme" series has the cat as a talking character
editIt's been a while since I've read the books, but the cat is introduced as a talking companion to Matthew Mantrell (the main character) at some point in the books. I believe the cat continues through more than one book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wizard_in_Rhyme
The same series also introduces 'Maxwell's Demon' as a character, but that's a different article.68.97.202.187 (talk) 15:05, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Sliders
editIn "Sliders" (Pilot film) the cat of the main character is named Schrodinger 12:59, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Poetry
editThere needs to be a poetry section, since there are myriads of poems on the subject, as the most cursory of web searches will attest. The four put up recently are some of the most interesting. Others should weigh in. The Cornell one is quite well known. 178.208.160.216 (talk) 13:19, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
New article
editThis article has been blown up and replaced, after the 4th AfD. Before, after AfD. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:14, 4 December 2022 (UTC)