Schrödinger’s cat - 1935

Both dead and alive, a cat trapped in a box

Trapped with a radioactive atom, a hammer, Geiger counter, and vial of poison fastened with locks

Theories of quantum mechanics debated in 1935

When Schrödinger and Einstein wrote, to this conclusion they arrived

The hammer brakes a glass vial

When will radiation spike the Geiger counter’s dial

Killing the cat, or not

See the paradox?

We don’t know the cat’s fate until we open the box

Known unknowns, zero, one, or both, fate chose

Radiation, nine lives, broken glass, poison, hammer, gravity, who knows?