ADW 123 wrote:Kittyfritters, your cat as named Schrodinger... as in Schrodinger's equation that we use for AP Chem? Just curious if there was a connection
Absolutely! When Erwin Schrodinger first published his equations, in 1935, to illustrate the paradox of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory when applied to everyday objects, he included the cat-in-the-box thought problem that has been famously, or infamously according to your bent, known ever since as "Schrodinger's Cat".
When we found a week old kitten, abandoned in our back yard, (Screeching like crazy....he had a great pair of lungs.) we took him inside and I ran to Petco for a kitten bottle and formula. Since kittens that small have trouble keeping warm, that night, my wife placed a plastic filing box alongside the bed, put a heating pad into the bottom, turned it to low, put a folded bath towel on top of it, put the kitten in the box and put a dish towel over the top to keep the heat in. Every hour, or so, through the night my wife would awake and check the box to make sure that the kitten was still alive and not too hot. In the morning, after a night like that, what else could we name him?
Today, five years later, he weighs 16 pounds and acts as though he rules the house.