{"id":3347,"date":"2014-11-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3347"},"modified":"2014-11-24T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T21:00:00","slug":"cat-cube-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3347","title":{"rendered":"Cat Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"QuestionImage\"<\/a>  If you put a cat in a sound-proof, non-transparent, cubic container that also housed a shotgun, and then you allowed a photon to pass through this container at a vertical vector, causing the shotgun to discharge, what would happen to the cat?<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

———- from Jerry Goldstein of Charleston, SC<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"  She would disassociate, going into a mild sort of catatonic shock that characterizes much of the known world today. Only after you attempted to form an intimate relationship with the cat would you discover that there’s really no one home. If the cat were a veteran, we might call it PTSD; if the cat were a female with literary ambition, we might say she possessed multiple personalities or ‘alters’; if she were a psychic, we would say she was channeling. In any case, that will be one angry cat.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"QuestionImage\"<\/a>If you put a cat in a sound-proof, non-transparent, cubic container that also housed a shotgun, and then you allowed a photon to pass through this container at a vertical vector, causing the shotgun to discharge, what would happen to the cat?

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