#shrodinger

[noe---l]

cuties

[izumis-stage]

shrodingus’s cat is such a stupid concept like just shake the box and see if it meows

[waywardsou2]

Was Simon really just Shrodingers human?

[bowlby4]

[morbs-writes]

Simon The Schrödinger's Cat [Iron Lung Spoilers]

Theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger introduced the experiment of a cat in a quantum state, where we can only learn it's alive or dead upon opening the box. Until then, the cat is both dead and alive, a superposition.

I feel Simon is very much that cat in the eyes of COI and we are stuck there in that box of his. The list of times Simon could have and possibly had died is worth all of my digits. Radiation poisoning and later - burns, CO or CO2 poisoning (worth noting, while CO2 poisoning is rare in real world, this type of poisoning is still likely in Simon's scenario once he runs out of oxygen), decompression sickness (aka the bends), chugging rubbing alcohol, multiple blunt head and spine injuries, the list goes on and the severity is pretty steep for each of those alone.

In some way, Simon is dead the moment he's welded shut in the sub - this is his box and the timer is ticking, he could run out of oxygen without even leaving the dry dock.

The other time he could be dead is when COI lost contact with the rover once it becomes untethered in the second half of the movie, a lost speck in the endless blood. That is until he comes back within the radio range, even if Ava claims he was gone for days. Turns out this cat is still alive!

Upon each re-watch I was trying to guess which was the "this must have been it" moment, but Simon is just too stubborn to die, but also too fucked to live. His survival instinct is cranked to 11, he knows the odds are bigger than him by an order of cosmic magnitude.

And yet this cat still manages to claw his way out of the box and protect the black box with his life. And now the curse falls on what's left of humanity, the next Schrödinger's Cat.

What will they make with this knowledge? Will they miraculously pull through and survive? Will they inevitably perish? I guess we'll never know and that's the beauty of this movie.

[vintage-tigre]

[sleepinwithdafishies]

[thetoasterthatszee]

One time my english class was reading Julius Caesar the Shakespeare play, and I was assigned to read for Cinna AND Cinna the poet.

(Everyone who knows the play knows that the joke is that cinna and cinna the poet are two different people and cinna the poet gets killed in the streets for sharing a name with cinna the guy who killed Ceasar.)

I decided to call myself "Schrodinger's Cinna" because depending on the scene i was either Cinna