On Broadway
  • Anonymous
    August 5, 2010

    typos are tragedies (unless I’m just not getting it)

  • tripleG
    August 5, 2010

    the reviews were equivocal

  • eric
    August 5, 2010

    What the!
    This isn’t a joke for Liberal Arts majors!
    Well, then. Me and my snarky quips about 18th century poets will go read webcomics elsewhere.

  • Rachel
    August 5, 2010

    I had to wiki this, but after a long hour of straining thought i finally got it, and it made me lol.

    Thanks Dorothy for introducing thought into my brain!

  • rdi
    August 5, 2010

    Both…until you start watching.

  • Matthew D. Phelan
    August 5, 2010

    Good one, RDI. (Obviously, also: Good one, DG.)

  • Emily
    August 5, 2010

    The acting was good, but the lead singer sounded like a dying cat.

  • Citizen Khan
    August 5, 2010

    Did they… did they get box seats?

  • MaggieL
    August 5, 2010

    Nice to see Dorothy doing some outreach on behalf of the XKCD crowd.

  • MaggieL
    August 5, 2010

    Please don’t stop, I come here to fill in the liberal arts holes created by my mathematical and engineering education.

  • Niha
    August 5, 2010

    Don’t forget it’s an interactive play; the public affects how the story develops.

  • Catalyst
    August 5, 2010

    Love it!!

    And come on, fellow liberal arts majors, this was a part of my required Philosophy Intro class in my B.A., was it not in yours??

  • Major English
    August 5, 2010

    seeing is the comedy HAHAHA

  • yachris
    August 5, 2010

    Love it.

  • Severn
    August 5, 2010

    I took formal logic for my Philosophy credit. It also counted as a math credit. I haven’t used figures not relating to lumber in seven years.

    Oddly enough, I kinda WANT to do math now.

  • Nick
    August 6, 2010

    As with most of quantum physics, the cat thought experiment shows that our world must be a much stranger place than we had previously understood. Schrödinger wanted to show that the Copenhagen interpretation (which is already pretty strange) leaves questions unanswered, questions which seem (to us as apparently conscious individuals) fundamental and yet to which we have no answers. Or rather, lots of answers and no reason to believe any of them are correct.

  • Chris
    August 6, 2010

    midnight, and the kitties are and are not sleeping.

  • BenK
    August 8, 2010

    wunderbar.

  • Yamara
    August 19, 2010

    Now and Forever.

    Except when it isn’t.

  • Loumo
    August 19, 2010

    I always thought that what Schrodinger’s thought experiment mostly showed was that cats and subatomic particles don’t behave the same way. Which is little surprise to me, but maybe Schrodinger had a thing about cats. I’ve known people who have to bring every conversation round to them, maybe he was like that about cats.

  • Matt
    September 3, 2010

    Heisenberg was pulled over by the police on the autobahn. The cop asked him, “do you know how fast you were going?” And Heisenberg answered, “no, but I know where I am.”

  • VariableYellow
    April 19, 2011

    Omg, I laugh harder each time I read this

  • Golux
    October 14, 2013

    Love the physics punchline! So, is it an undead cat or an unlive zombie?

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