This was really cool to work on! Got a last-minute opportunity to collaborate with the wonderfully skilled and super-friendly
henrieke She did all of the drawing, and I did the coloring. I really look up to her art, and her inking in particular gets me drooling, so it was a real treat to get to work on this!
The piece is a two-page spread for Confuzzled's 2010 conbook, with "scientists" as their theme.
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henrieke She did all of the drawing, and I did the coloring. I really look up to her art, and her inking in particular gets me drooling, so it was a real treat to get to work on this!The piece is a two-page spread for Confuzzled's 2010 conbook, with "scientists" as their theme.
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It's a thought experiment. In quantum physics, particles behave in weird ways. One of these is that until you actually measure it, a particle behaves as if it were in every possible state, only "deciding" itself for a state when it is observed (or measured). Read the Young Experiment on wikipedia for an example.
So as a thought experiment, put a cat in a box, with a bottle of poison, a detector, and a particle with two possible states. If the particle is in state A, the poison is released and the cat dies. If the particle is in state B, then nothing happens and the cat is alive.
If you don't measure the state of the particle, it continues to behave as if it was actually in both states at the same time. But the box is closed, and you can't see the cat. If the particle is in both states until you observe it, but the state of the particle determines the state of the cat... then would the cat be both alive and dead at the same time, until you opened the box and looked inside?
Obviously the world doesn't work that way, the little thought experiment just helps to illustrate how modern science still has trouble explaining how particles with quantum behavior somehow come together to form non-quantum world we see around us.
So as a thought experiment, put a cat in a box, with a bottle of poison, a detector, and a particle with two possible states. If the particle is in state A, the poison is released and the cat dies. If the particle is in state B, then nothing happens and the cat is alive.
If you don't measure the state of the particle, it continues to behave as if it was actually in both states at the same time. But the box is closed, and you can't see the cat. If the particle is in both states until you observe it, but the state of the particle determines the state of the cat... then would the cat be both alive and dead at the same time, until you opened the box and looked inside?
Obviously the world doesn't work that way, the little thought experiment just helps to illustrate how modern science still has trouble explaining how particles with quantum behavior somehow come together to form non-quantum world we see around us.
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