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2010

Church and state--United States.

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Schrödinger’S Cross: The Quantum Mechanics Of The Establishment Clause, Joseph Blocher Jan 2010

Schrödinger’S Cross: The Quantum Mechanics Of The Establishment Clause, Joseph Blocher

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Perhaps the most famous character in modern physics is Schrödinger’s Cat, an unfortunate feline trapped in a box alongside a flask containing deadly poison that may or may not have been released. Thanks to the wonders of quantum mechanics, the cat is both alive and dead — “mixed or smeared out in equal parts” — until the box is opened, at which point the act of observation causes its state to collapse into either life or death.

Far away in the Mojave Desert, the “life” of a six-foot-tall cross is disputed: it is either a religious symbol or it is …