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Schrödinger's cat - Entanglement (Verschränkung)

May be a graphic of cat and text

Light is a wave and a particle too
it does not matter
if a particle's partiality
parts with the classical concept
of duality.

A wave can be a particle
and matter, or matter not.
Behaviour at the quantum level
is unpredictable in the extreme,
so firing particles through a mountain
isn't as unreasonable as it may seem?

Like position and momentum,
or like photons and matter,
waving to a particle
leaves light in tatters.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle meets Schrödinger's cat
all that matters is the wave
so, that is that.

Particle duality and an old scratchy cat
resolve matters amicably on the particle-mat
the presence of consciousness lightens up the room
as wave turns to particle and disappears too soon;
looking at the stars and waving at the past
I think maybe, just maybe, this magic will last.

 

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