Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Quantum physicist: if anyone mentions Schrödinger’s cat I swear to God

This is why I hated the pilot of the series "Dark Matter" on AppleTV+. So fed up with bad drama writing around physics and natural sciences in general.

I’m sure with enough effort one *could* design an experiment where you put a cup into a superposition of full and empty. In thought-experiment-land just replace the cat with a cup and the “sleeping gas” nozzle with a water faucet.

and Notand Not

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. The Cup: all is fine Water Molecules: what’s next? Grizzly Bear: humankind has gone haywire

😭😭

Surrealist: the cup is a horse head

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