We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. As a child, Schrödinger showed an affinity for both science and the logic of ancient grammar – two interests that would serve him well later on his career, explaining the intricacies in quantum mechanics.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Schrödinger was born on Augin Vienna, Austria, the only child of Rudolf Schrödinger and Georgine Emilia Brenda. Whereas before, the Copenhagen theory of quantum physics proposed that particles could be in two different states at the same time, Schrödinger extrapolated this theory to something concrete that cannot exist simultaneously as both dead and alive: a cat. The cat’s status – dead or alive – is only determined once an outside party takes a look inside the box to see how the cat faired.
But can the cat be both dead and alive at the same time? And there is a 50 percent chance both the poisonous vial and the cat would come out intact. There is a 50 percent chance that the radioactive source decays within the hour, which would set off the Geiger counter, cause the hammer to smash open the vial of poison, and the cat would die. Imagine this: A cat is placed inside a box with a flask of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter (to detect radiation), and a hammer for one hour. Monday’s Google doodle honors Erwin Schrödinger, the physicist who came up with the groundbreaking, albeit slightly macabre, thought experiment that applied quantum physics theory to something real and all-too-tangible for some: a cat.
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