On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Schroedinger's cat very definitely is fictitious;
it's not an
experiment you can actually do and get an alive/dead cat that you can
actually see, you would get either an alive cat, or a dead cat.
I agree with the statement that it should not be in that category.
Essentially, because schrodinger's cat is not a cat. Felix the Cat is
a fictional cat. Simba the lion is a fictional cat, in a broader
sense. Schrodinger's cat is a concept in physics that has nothing to
do with cats or fiction. There is no notable fiction in which
Schrodinger's cat features heavily, for example.
To the OP: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. One bad
category member does not justify nuking an entire family of
categories.
Steve