Schrödinger'
s cock: a cock, a flask of whiskey, and a porno magazine are placed in a sealed box. If an externalal monitor detects alcohol, the flask is shattered, releasing the whiskey, which kills the
boner. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cock is simultaneously erect and flacid. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cock either erect or flacid not both erect and flacid. This poses the
question of when exactly quantum superposition
ends and
reality collapses into one possibility or the other.Schrödinger's cock is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a
paradox, devised by Austrian physicist
Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.1 It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cock that
may be simultaneously both erect and flacid,2345678 a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomic event that may or
may not occur. The thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement) in the course of developing the thought experiment.
