Schrodinger's Cat Tale

(to Mittens)

Schrödinger’s Cat is where it’s at,
nor live, nor dead, nor purring.
With half a chance she’ll live to prance
the worst may be occurring.

But if I’d look I’d lock her fate.
Dare I disturb her quantum state
when spooky action at-a-distance
could conclude poor cat’s existence?

Somehow unseen I need to see
behind that curious curtain,
where “God plays dice” with cats and mice,
where Heisenberg was uncertain.

Where large meets small, and cause effect,
where fact finds science fiction.
It boggles my small intellect …
Each way I think of to protect 
her has some contradiction.

Where simple seeming Maxwell’s Demon,
if programmed to assist … 
To no avail, he’s doomed to fail,
he clearly can’t exist.

Where mighty minds have failed before,
what chance have I to best Niels Bohr?
Poor Einstein nearly fried his noggin
when he tried at Copenhagen.
Then at the Solvay Congress, rambling,
suffered cerebellum scrambling.

Where the world’s four known forces and all its best minds,
couldn’t save kitty lest they Unified.
So he tried and he tried, and he tried and he tried,
still we weren’t Unified on the day Einstein died.

Then followed footsteps, Steven Hawking.
Though he didn’t do much walking,
wowed us with his brilliant squawking.

Black holes have “hair?!” Could information,
spared by quantum sublimation,
paired in Grand Unification,
spare this long-hair’s ruination?

Could yet unwritten cosmic laws
apply behind those blurry walls
to spare her furry feline paws?

I can’t remember if I cried
when I read that Steven Hawking died.
Such sadness touched me deep inside,
still, we were not Unified.

So confidence I can’t exude.
The only thing I can conclude:
Alas, I lack ability
to tinker probability.

But I will give you even odds that all our odds are even.
This odd result results because we’ve mixed our rhymes with reason.
So be it odd to play at God … by God there’s a solution!
I have free will and will by God will out her execution.
So, by stroke of this pen I do decree:
This story ends here -- happily!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019


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Date: 2/24/2020 2:24:00 PM
This is totally my favorite. Damn well done.
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Date: 1/14/2020 9:34:00 PM
This is wonderful - I wrote a piece a while ago applying the paradox to a child's fear of darkness, (as I was such a wee lad, terrified), and I very much enjoyed this! I also write poems on quantum theory and physics, but they rarely get comments, lol, (not "that" kind of crowd here, I guess). The aforementioned was called 'Schrodinger's Monster', I believe, if you care to track it down. Excellent work - and another into my faves!
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Date: 11/20/2019 3:56:00 PM
Eric congratulations on your win in my writing challenge!
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