cat-justice
Original: cat-justice on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Why do we need to interpret quantum mechanics? Why can't we just accept the obscured phenomena as the queer nature of the universe?
Man: BECAUSE OF JUSTICE.
Panel 2:
Man: Suppose you find a Schrodinger's cat box. You open it and find a dead cat.
Panel 3:
Man: According to the unification collapse interpretation, the cat is only HALF-guilty of catslaughter.
Panel 4:
Man: According to the many worlds interpretation, you caused a split in reality. You are 100% guilty of catslaughter, and an alternate version of you gets a live cat.
Panel 5:
Man: According to the hidden variables interpretation, something else happened to kill the cat before you opened the door.
Panel 6:
Woman: I never realized how much of physics could be explained via cat-justice.
Man: It's the Rosetta Stone for reality.
Votey:
Handwritten note: According to Einstein, God secretly killed Schrodinger's cat.
Woman: Why do we need to interpret quantum mechanics? Why can't we just accept the obscured phenomena as the queer nature of the universe?
Man: BECAUSE OF JUSTICE.
Panel 2:
Man: Suppose you find a Schrodinger's cat box. You open it and find a dead cat.
Panel 3:
Man: According to the unification collapse interpretation, the cat is only HALF-guilty of catslaughter.
Panel 4:
Man: According to the many worlds interpretation, you caused a split in reality. You are 100% guilty of catslaughter, and an alternate version of you gets a live cat.
Panel 5:
Man: According to the hidden variables interpretation, something else happened to kill the cat before you opened the door.
Panel 6:
Woman: I never realized how much of physics could be explained via cat-justice.
Man: It's the Rosetta Stone for reality.
Votey:
Handwritten note: According to Einstein, God secretly killed Schrodinger's cat.
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A man with light hair lectures a woman with curly dark hair about quantum mechanics. Panel 1: She asks why we need to interpret quantum mechanics instead of just accepting it as the queer nature of the universe; he answers, in all caps, 'BECAUSE OF JUSTICE.' Panel 2: He says suppose you find a Schrodinger's cat box, open it, and find a dead cat. Panel 3: Under the 'unification collapse' interpretation the cat is only HALF-guilty of catslaughter. Panel 4: Under the 'many worlds' interpretation you split reality and are 100% guilty, while an alternate you gets a live cat. Panel 5: Under the 'hidden variables' interpretation something else killed the cat before you opened the door. Panel 6: She marvels that so much physics can be explained via 'cat-justice'; he calls it 'the Rosetta Stone for reality.' The joke recasts the various interpretations of quantum mechanics as competing legal verdicts assigning blame for the cat's death. Votey: a handwritten note in a box reads, 'According to Einstein, God secretly killed Schrodinger's cat' — a jab at Einstein's 'God does not play dice' stance.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.