{"id":3991,"date":"2011-09-29T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2011-09-29T22:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T05:00:50","slug":"schrodinger-his-cat-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2011\/09\/29\/schrodinger-his-cat-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Schrodinger, his cat, and me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I worked a bit late and thought I would step out of my office to find a quiet office suite.\u00a0 Instead, in the fishbowl conference room in the middle of our floor, a Professor led a class lecture about Quantum Mechanics (because of the space &#8216;crunch&#8217; at our university, even the administrative conference rooms are used as classrooms after-hours).\u00a0 I stood there, looking through the window at the prof&#8217;s powerpoint slides for a good 10 minutes until I peeled myself away to head home (if I hadn&#8217;t had the kids to care for, I probably would&#8217;ve lingered even longer).\u00a0 His lecture about Schrodinger&#8217;s equation brought back fond memories from high school when I first learned about quantum mechanics via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0553342533\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0553342533\">this book<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae qqybfuhsvgvehocpbcae\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0553342533&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> that I swiped from my father&#8217;s bookshelves (oh, and then there were those eager conversations with my Chemistry teacher afterwards, too, as I tried to make sense of what I was learning)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a thrill to know that the faculty that I rub shoulders with on a daily basis are doing such <a href=\"%3Ca%20href=%22http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0553342533\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0553342533%22%3Ethis%20book%3C\/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pilgrimgirl-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0553342533&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20\/%3E\" target=\"_blank\">path-breaking work<\/a>.\u00a0 And that I get to eavesdrop on their lectures (and aid with their pedagogy and research through my administrative position) is similarly thrilling.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not cut out to be a Physicist, but I know a thing or two about cats and boxes (and cats in boxes), and I remember when I first encountered Schrodinger&#8217;s cat and realized that my view of the world would never be quite the same again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image of my favorite Ellykitty in a box.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I worked a bit late and thought I would step out of my office to find a quiet office suite.\u00a0 Instead, in the fishbowl conference room in the middle of our floor, a Professor led a class lecture about Quantum Mechanics (because of the space &#8216;crunch&#8217; at our university, even the administrative conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deep-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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