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Letter: Once a week I feel like Schrödinger's cat

Published 14 April 2021

From Paul Whiteley, Bittaford, Devon, UK

How would you feel if you were in a quantum superposition, asks Carlo Rovelli in his article “Why quantum is relative” (13 March, p 36).

That is easy enough to answer. I am in a superposition every Friday night, having played the lottery but not looking at the results until Saturday morning. On Friday nights, I am in a superposition of both being a lottery millionaire and also the same old wage slave. The consequences are that one does wake up in a bit of a daze – or is it a hangover?

Issue no. 3330 published 17 April 2021

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