huh? I thought everybody knew about that by now, that trope gets used in just about everything
[orrrrrr maybe you're just a nerd, travis.]
well, it's a thought experiment. the basic setup is this:
- imagine a cat. actually, imagine my cat. this is Jeane as a kitten [he's oh so helpfully attached this old photo of a kitten, pouncing on a fluffy toy on a stick.] - I put Jeane inside a tamperproof, soundproof, covered box. once she's in there, i won't be able to see or hear her at all - NOW imagine that i put a flask of deadly poison in with her. [HE FORGOT ABOUT THE GEIGER COUNTER PART, SO:] if the poison stays in the flask, she'll be fine. however there's about a 50/50 chance that the flask will shatter on its own, she'll knock it over, etc... and as soon as that happens the poison will kill her.
so here's the question our pal Schrodinger asked. the box is closed, and the cat and poison are inside. before you open it up again, is Jeane alive... or is she dead?
i see. quantum mechanics, is it? though i only know the bare bones of it. the cat can be both dead and alive. it's an absurd thought in real life, but its fate is already linked to an event that has yet to occur.
[ these neeeeerds. ]
though i'm sorry to disappoint. my box is full of bees, not cats.
hey, you did know it after all! i dont know a ton about the quantum mechanics part, but it gets brought up a lot when people talk about alternate universes or parallel timelines: as in, the timeline splits in two based on the cat's fate. which... does sound pretty nuts when you lay it out like that
[he's not the one in his own story who has to think about quantum mechanics, though-- he's just gotta swing his katana around, thank god.]
so your queen was a queen bee? don't tell me you're keeping the bees that've been swarming around here?
would the timeline really split or is it simply on hold from the time you got plucked from it, and until you get back?
[ travis, you keep sidetracking him — ]
in fact, i am, the little working bees are a fascinating study multiple species came and went with the winds, i wanted to sort through them all especially seeing how they affected the plant life
i don't believe their sudden arrival was a coincidence, that's all they came with strong winds that no one predicted, pollinated the island with their sheer numbers
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is this gonna be a schrodinger's cat joke? im not from a visual novel yknow... wrong genre
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it really wasn't, but now i'm curious
what is schrodinger's cat?
and then he DID become the vn character
[orrrrrr maybe you're just a nerd, travis.]
well, it's a thought experiment. the basic setup is this:
- imagine a cat. actually, imagine my cat. this is Jeane as a kitten [he's oh so helpfully attached this old photo of a kitten, pouncing on a fluffy toy on a stick.]
- I put Jeane inside a tamperproof, soundproof, covered box. once she's in there, i won't be able to see or hear her at all
- NOW imagine that i put a flask of deadly poison in with her. [HE FORGOT ABOUT THE GEIGER COUNTER PART, SO:] if the poison stays in the flask, she'll be fine. however there's about a 50/50 chance that the flask will shatter on its own, she'll knock it over, etc... and as soon as that happens the poison will kill her.
so here's the question our pal Schrodinger asked. the box is closed, and the cat and poison are inside. before you open it up again, is Jeane alive... or is she dead?
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the cat can be both dead and alive.
it's an absurd thought in real life, but its fate is already linked to an event that has yet to occur.
[ these neeeeerds. ]
though i'm sorry to disappoint. my box is full of bees, not cats.
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[he's not the one in his own story who has to think about quantum mechanics, though-- he's just gotta swing his katana around, thank god.]
so your queen was a queen bee? don't tell me you're keeping the bees that've been swarming around here?
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[ travis, you keep sidetracking him — ]
in fact, i am, the little working bees are a fascinating study
multiple species came and went with the winds, i wanted to sort through them all
especially seeing how they affected the plant life
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[he may be a nerd but he is Not a smart one]
oh, cool
whatre you saying, they pollinated the plants with horniness
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they came with strong winds that no one predicted, pollinated the island with their sheer numbers
but they seem to be calmer now
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whatcha got planned for em apart from the studies
honey? a bunch of tiny little bodyguards?
[the painnnnn]
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...well. ]
math
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for fun??
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not me though
i happen to know a math professor who'd rave about honeycombs for hours
[ yeah, actually.... definitely not him, he's dumb. ]
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the question is how to tap into the bee hivemind and become their overlord
i will take suggestions
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you just gotta mindmeld with the QUEEN, dude
then she tells the rest of the bees to do her (your) bidding