We Tokyoites always go gaga whenever snow falls in the metropolitan area. There's a damn good reason for that. We suffer the cold winter but usually never have the pleasure to actually see snowfall.
Till now, I had only seen two occasions of worth-to-brag about snowfall over here on Tokyo. I always think of it as some form of reward for suffering the biting cold winds throughout this winter. Seeing all the white fluffy stuff laying around makes me forget the cold and pick it up to throw to someone. And I most certainly did that (to my housemate).
Hey, how often could you get plastered by snowball in Tokyo?
For those not familiar, "Schrodinger's cat" is actually a sort of experiment where a cat is shut in a box which you cannot possibly see/hear/observe anything going inside and the only possible outcomes when you open up the box are:
Fortunately this not a real experiment per se. More of just the kind of of stuffs old and overly smart scientist* like to think up in their own imagination.
Back to the experiment, both outcomes are possible. A 50-50 chance of having the cat in the box being dead or still be alive and annoyed. The cat at that particular moment is described as dead and alive. Something that as ridiculous as it may seem, is also completely true.
*Oooh.. last.fm's playing BOA!*
*dances to the beat*
OK, here's the important part. When this realization came to me, I felt so enlightened and felt that I immediately have to share this with the world before the Vogons decides to demolish Earth. Something that no scientist has ever yet noted about this world famous "thought" experiment. It has to be, without any doubt nor scientific debate (not even quantum science could refute), that the animal has got to be a cat.
Why, you ask?
No other creature would ever go into a box this willingly. QED.
Curiosity kills a cat. Huh..
Or maybe not!
Quantum mechanics my friends!
*Young scientist being young, play RPGs and online flash games.
Exams right now. Trying to study in this weather, it is nearly impossible not to think of going off somewhere cool like the sea or somewhere closer like this Yazawa River.
Note to self: After exams, get a nice book, iPod, ice-cream and lepak over here. Oooh... better bring mosquito repellant too.
