ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Well? Doesnt anyone want to explain Schroedinger's Cat to me? Do you know a cry for help when you hear one? [:D]
It has to do with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (the act of observing something changes it, first postulated with respect to the position of electrons about an atomic nucleus). Schroedinger explained it with a thought experiment involving his cat. It went sorta like this:
His cat is in a box. There are two possible states for the cat, alive or dead. If you lift up the box to examine the cat, you will cause the cat to assume one of the two states. As long as the box is left in place, the cat has a probability of being alive and a probability of being dead, but it is neither.
So, it's really a dead cat joke.