Cat?

[karohemd]

I'm sure most of you have seen today's XKCD so I don't have to mention its coolness but do any of you have an idea what the cat falling off the edge might refer to? Is it just random?
And I just had a thought: It might refer to Schrödinger's Cat as we're talking about the "observable universe".

Comments

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

To see if it lands on its feet :-)

[lupie-stardust.livejournal.com]

I was just about to say~

[commlal.livejournal.com]

Oh yea.

[caseytalk.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought -- seeing if a cat falling from that height still lands on its feet.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hm, an unprotected cat at that height wouldn't fall but die because it's in space. Or would it? Which brings us back to Schrödinger's experiment.

[nevla.livejournal.com]

True, but the cat isn't in space, it's falling allongside the very tall graphic, but outside of it.
I must admit, i first thought of Schrodinger myself, but then dismissed. It would have been better if there was a toaster and some butter on the floor next to the figure...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, fair enough. I've been thinking too much.
Heh, I'd like the buttered toast idea.

[nevla.livejournal.com]

one of the paradoxes of modern probability. A cat always lands on his feet, and toast always lands buttered-side down. So if you strap buttered toast to a cat will it mearly hovver?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know the theory. Not only hover but basically be a perpetuum mobile you could use for generating electricity because it'll keep spinning.

The problem with the theory is that a cat will land on its feet from any (well, up to a point) height whereas the buttered toast thing will only work from a certain multiple of the average table height (due to the time it takes a falling piece of toast to turn 180°.

[nevla.livejournal.com]

LOL!
You know more than me then!