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I'm getting mixed signals

This meme is edited to look like a WhatsApp chat conversation, with the contact named after famous physicist Erwin Schrödinger, using his portrait as a profile picture. The user asks Schrödinger the question: 'Is the cat alive?', referencing his well-known Schrödinger's cat thought experiment in quantum mechanics. In reply, Schrödinger sends many copies of the word 'No', which are arranged to form the shape of a capital 'Y' — the common abbreviation for 'Yes'. This creates a double answer: both No and Yes at the same time, perfectly matching the paradox of Schrödinger's cat, where the cat is simultaneously both alive and dead inside the unopened box, resulting in the 'mixed signals' mentioned in the meme title.
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Is the cat alive?
Multiple 'No' words arranged into the shape of a Y (Yes)

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Contact: Erwin Schrödinger (online), conversation date: TODAY

Overview

This meme is edited to look like a WhatsApp chat conversation, with the contact named after famous physicist Erwin Schrödinger, using his portrait as a profile picture. The user asks Schrödinger the question: 'Is the cat alive?', referencing his well-known Schrödinger's cat thought experiment in quantum mechanics. In reply, Schrödinger sends many copies of the word 'No', which are arranged to form the shape of a capital 'Y' — the common abbreviation for 'Yes'. This creates a double answer: both No and Yes at the same time, perfectly matching the paradox of Schrödinger's cat, where the cat is simultaneously both alive and dead inside the unopened box, resulting in the 'mixed signals' mentioned in the meme title.

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This is an original science-themed meme posted to Reddit under the original title 'I'm getting mixed signals'. It is a humorous joke that plays on the famous quantum mechanics thought experiment created by Erwin Schrödinger.

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