Ph: Physics: Haiku: ' Schrodinger's Cat' Pontificates On His Chances Poem by Brian Johnston

Brian Johnston

Poet's Notes:
A famous thought experiment in Physics in which the life or death of Schridinger's Cat (an imaginary animal) in a box depends on unpredictable chance. The experiment unimpeded, the cat will die, the question is only when. The larger issue however, is that since no one can see what has actually happened, the actual state of the cat is unknown and hence can only be discussed in terms of the probability of the cat being either dead or alive. And probability ends the earlier mechanistic view of both God and His creation. God is no longer black and white, color has returned to His cheeks.**

* hangs - like the sword of Damocles, capable of falling randomly at any instant.

** see my earlier poem 'Black Body' for an even more poetic discussion.