Ignoring the moral question in the story, many people are satisfied by saying "haha funny, the cat is both dead and alive" and they just move on. Reading Pratc

Ignoring the moral question in the story, many people are satisfied by saying "haha funny, the cat is both dead and alive" and they just move on. Reading Pratchett for almost 30 years, it has fueled quite an interested in quantum mechanics in me, he subtly introduces QM teasers in almost every book I read. Particularly Mort. As I dropped out of highschool, I didnt have the luck to properly study physics, but in my 30s, I my existential crisis hit, as they say, a man dies twice, and the stupid half dead cat wouldn't leave me alone. And one night the omnipotent youtube algorithm recommended Susskind's lectures to me, then Feynman, Shankar, .. it just kept going. Now I watch and re-watch them but take screenshots and send them to claude when I am confused (which is still most of the time). If you are a layman like me and just want to know what is up with the cat, I encourage you to watch Sean Carroll's lectures (dont miss the Q&A videos) and it will for sure allow you to ask at least better questions. I love that cat so much. --- Sean Carroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI09kat_GeI&list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3jyjUUrJlnoyzX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI09kat_GeI&list=PLrxfgDEc2N... Richard Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kFOXP026eE&list=PLS3_1JNX8dEh5YcO-Y05stU0u_T9nqIlF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kFOXP026eE&list=PLS3_1JNX8d... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAnnEiAjN6U&list=PLYZ3-8b-4zqGT2hQQBEDSW07iU_oHS3jF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAnnEiAjN6U&list=PLYZ3-8b-4z... Leonard Susskind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyX8kQ-JzHI&list=PL6i60qoDQhQGaGbbg-4aSwXJvxOqO6o5e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyX8kQ-JzHI&list=PL6i60qoDQh... Ramamurti Shankar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2eFv7ne_Q&list=PLF366409F51FF3CA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2eFv7ne_Q&list=PLF366409F5... Barton Zwiebach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jANZxzetPaQ&list=PLUl4u3cNGP60cspQn3N9dYRPiyVWDd80G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jANZxzetPaQ&list=PLUl4u3cNGP... Carl Bender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYNOGk3ZjFM&list=PL43B1963F261E6E47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYNOGk3ZjFM&list=PL43B1963F2... If you struggle with calculus, I found Herb Gross to be partucularly good Herb Gross: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRWDuduuSw&list=PL3B08AE665AB9002A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRWDuduuSw&list=PL3B08AE665... Of course watch 3blue1brown, alphaphoenix, styropyro etc as well