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The Geekiest Animals in History
Flipper writes "CNET has compiled a list of the geekiest animals throughout history. The entries include such peculiar characters as Ham The Astrochimp (the first chimp in space), Schrödinger's Cat (used to demonstrate quantum superposition) and Hans, a horse who could apparently do complex mathematics and read words. The classics are there too, Pavlov's dogs get a well-deserved mention, as does Dolly The Sheep. What sounds like a pretty bizarre list is actually strangely interesting — some of these animals are seriously geeky."
The Geekiest Animal is the GNU!
Schrodinger's cat is NOT hypothetical. He exists... probably
If you're not certain, then maybe you're talking about Heisenberg's cat...
The opposite of progress is congress
You're arguing nomenclature that's standard in just about every quantum mechanics course taught in the world. You're arguing nomenclature that was established by the fathers of quantum physics. At this point, it's accepted terminology and you aren't gonna change it. An observation is the same as a measurement is the same as an interaction that can be represented mathematically via an operator. Get over it.