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Mushy?

Protons sound adorable :3
Get three cats and call them, proton, electron and neutron
Buy two cats and get a third one free:

Buy Proton and Electron first. Neutron? No charge.

LOL
Isotopes are gay, you shouldn't pay for a Neutron cat

Here's something i never thought i'd say
If Schrodinger told you that he might put his pet cat in a box and give it to you as a present, until you open the box to reveal said cat, or lack thereof, his cat can be thought of as both in your possession and not in your possession at the same time.
And if you open the box the wave function collapses and the cat disappears. Or suddenly acquires an infinite uncertainty in momentum because you know where it is.
Okay at this point I can't keep up lol
Heisenberg uncertainty principle (which is what the Schrodinger's cat thing is about). Essentially, the more certainty in the measurement of the position of a particle, the less certainty existed about how it would move with time. (This is from my paper on Schrodinger last semester) And of course if you have less certainty about the particles position, you can have more certainty about its momentum.
OK, I'm out, that is above my fireplace. I followed up till Schrodinger, but then you drop that on me and I'm back to not understanding. I'm gonna one day call my cat Schrodinger and my dog Pavlov.
Now I feel like I'm not good enough at explaining it. I guess even simpler is that on a quantum scale, you can either know where something is, or where its going, but not both. Does that make sense?

With the cat, when the box is closed you don't really know if its there or not. I was joking that once you know where the cat is you can't know where its going so it would disappear. That wave function collapsing thing I won't even try to explain, just ignore that part.