our household, on physics

2: what’s Schrodinger’s cat about again?

1: something about a thought experiment in which a cat demonstrates some principle of quantum mechanics. i think.

2: and the cat’s dead, right?

1: i think so. no, i think it’s dead in one time zone but not in another.

2:

1: hey, you were the physics major.

2: somewhere, stephen hawking just got a horrible chill and he doesn’t know why.

1: probably the thought of a dead cat.