"You see," Edith said gently, "you were right about the mathematics. But you were wrong about the story. A cat doesn’t need to understand superposition to be in it. And a man doesn’t need to be kind to be changed by one."
She handed him a pair of lead-lined gloves. "The mechanism was set to trigger one hour after sealing. That was ninety-two years ago. The cat is dead. The cat is alive. The cat has been both, for almost a century, because the only observer that counts is inside, and she’s never decided." dr. sheldon wise
And for the first time in his life, Dr. Sheldon Wise submitted a paper without a single footnote. "You see," Edith said gently, "you were right