Schrodinger's Cat

The first time I heard this analogy was a little after junior year of high school, our AP Chemistry teacher had mentioned it almost as an afterthought, seemingly smirking because he was both messing with and blowing our minds at the same time.

The next time this little story came up was in General Chemistry, which actually explained the details, consequences, and applications of this.

I've noticed that this actually applies to many more things than just atomic physics and chemistry. It is a natural sense of anxiety and/or hope, based simply in our own knowledge base.

For instance, if my football team was expected to lose a big match-up against a division rival, but I had no television to actually watch the game, I would be, in a sense, both anxious and hopeful on what the result would be. This range collapses after I look up the score online afterward, where my team would have either won or lost, not both.

I think this has a lot to do with the concept of wanting to be in control of one's life, all the time; we seek to minimize the questionable, to lift the fog, and remove the sense of limbo from our lives. This is in relation to our new technological generation, where information is right at the tip of our fingertips. Sometimes, what we don't realize, is that spectrum of feeling, the sense of unknowing protects us, gives us hope. Some things can be left better unsaid.

For all of you guys who didn't know, this is where "curiosity killed the cat" comes from.