consider the cat

To my fellows,

In 1935, Erwin Schrödinger created his famous (and perhaps infamous to those who call them companions) Quantum Physics thought experiment; Schrödinger's Box. To summarize for those unfamiliar, a cat is placed in a box with a very small, decaying radioactive atom, a Geiger counter with a hammer, and a vial of poison. Should the atom's half-life occur, the hammer will smash the vial, and the cat will die. Because we do not know, and cannot know, how long before the atom disappears, we must paradoxically assume that the cat is both dead and alive at the same time. And until you open the box, you just don't know.

But the side we do not consider is that of the cat's. In our universe, plagued by eldritch horrors and cosmic entities of unfathomable power, a vial of poison is far cry from the greatest danger one could face. Locked away in its steel cage, the cat would also be forced to assume that everyone outside is dead and alive at the same time. The cat will not know the state of the universe until it emerges from its cage. You might argue that a cat could not comprehend this paradox, but I disagree. I believe

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