Why you can finally view this blog!

A French and American duo that developed techniques to study the interplay between light and matter on the smallest and most intimate imaginable scale won the Nobel Prize in Physics Tuesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/science/french-and-us-scientists-win-nobel-physics-prize.html?smid=pl-share

Schrödinger proposed a scenario with a cat in a sealed box, wherein the cat's life or death depended on the state of a subatomic particle. According to Schrödinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead (to the universe outside the box) until the box is opened. Schrödinger did not wish to promote the idea of dead-and-alive cats as a serious possibility; quite the reverse, the paradox is a classic reductio ad absurdum. The thought experiment illustrates quantum mechanics and the mathematics necessary to describe quantum states. Intended as a critique of just the Copenhagen interpretation (the prevailing orthodoxy in 1935), the Schrödinger cat thought experiment remains a typical touchstone for limited interpretations of quantum mechanics. Physicists often use the way each interpretation deals with Schrödinger's cat as a way of illustrating and comparing the particular features, strengths, and weaknesses of each interpretation.

So what are the implications of this thought experiment as they pertain to this blog? My thoughts, are as always, half in and half out of the box; both living and dead. Living as I think them, dead unless viewed and shared. They can exist in both states, confined as they are within this "web-box", until you turn an eye towards them.  I hope that you will.