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  • Sheldon, do you have anything to say that has anything to do with, you know, what

  • I'm talking about.

  • Well, let's see.

  • We might consider Schrodinger's Cat.

  • Schrodinger?

  • Is that the woman in 2A?

  • No. That's Mrs Grossinger. And she doesn't have a cat, she has a Mexican hairless,

  • annoying little animal, yip yip yip yip... Sheldon!

  • Sorry, you diverted me. Anyway,

  • in 1935, Erwin Schrodinger, in an attempt to explain the

  • Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, he proposed an experiment where a cat

  • is placed in a box with a sealed vial of poison that will break open at

  • a random time.

  • Now, since no-one knows when or if the poison has been released, until the box

  • is opened, the cat can be thought of as both alive and dead.

  • I'm sorry, I don't get the point. Well of course you don't get it, I haven't made it yet.

  • You'd have to be psychic to get it, and there's no such thing as psychic. Sheldon, what's the point?

  • Just like Schrodinger's Cat,

  • your potential relationship with Leonard right now can be thought of as

  • both good and bad. It is only by opening the box that you'll find out which it is.

  • Okay, so you're saying I should go out with Leonard. No, no, no, no, no, no.

  • Let me start again. In 1935, Erwin Schrodinger...

Sheldon, do you have anything to say that has anything to do with, you know, what

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