Thursday I found out J, a really close friend, told her on/off boyfriend (when they were off!!!) that i have a crush on B. He told a friend who told a friend who told a friend, meaning B can find out at any moment. So I believe it’s time to explain to you guys the Schrodinger’s Cat paradox and how I’m about to find out if the cat is alive or not.
If you’ve read the John Green’s book “Will and Will” you probably already know what the Schrodinger’s Cat paradox is. If you haven’t, here we go:
A cat is in a sealed box with a flask of poison and a radioactive source. If an atom of the radioactive substance is detected by a monitor, the poison flask will be shattered and the cat will die. The monitor may not detect the radioactive substante and the cat may live. By the fact that we don’t know what happened the cat is at the same time alive and dead as long as we don’t open the box.
That can be used as a metaphor to pretty much everything in ur life. I particularly use it in boys matter. When you like a boy and you talk with him and you’re close to him, u don’t know if he also likes you, unless you ‘open the box’ aka ask him/show him your intressed. The only problem is when you open the box, the cat has as many chances of beeing alive as he has to be dead meaning you may find a hot new bae as you may find a new heartbreak, which is why I hate opening the box.
If a lot of people from my school knows about my crush, soon enough B. will find out too and the box will be openned against my will, and I truly believe the cat is long dead. I really wish J would’ve kept her mouth shut so I could keep my box shut too.
Let’s hope that if when the box is opened, if the cat is not healthy, it is at least still breathing.
xoxo
-MP
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