Schr?dinger?s Cat

[Mark LaPierre]

On 07/13/2013 02:13 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 07/13/2013 10:39 AM, lee wrote:
>> Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> Is there any way to tell grub2 to display this somewhat nicer in the
>>> menu, like in /etc/fedora-release: Schrödinger’s Cat.
>>
>> Like "Schroedingers Cat"? ;)
>>
>> There's something about fonts in grub.cfg:
>>
> /snip/
> Schrödinger's Cat is a wallpaper, the default on Korora, and
> perhaps on Fedora also.
>
>> `----
>>
>>
>> BTW, why is it "Schrödinger's" and not "Schrödingers"?  Schrödinger
>> wasn't a cat.
>>
>>
> Schrödinger was a philosopher who dreamed up a thought experiment
> involving a theoretical cat. Look up Schödinger's Cat on Google.
>
> BTW: It's acceptable to spell the philosopher's name "Schroedinger"
> if you don't have any umlauts in you machine.
>
> --doug
>

Erwin Schrödinger was a Physicist, not a philosopher.  His cat example 
was a logical explanation of the quantum mechanical principal of 
uncertainty.

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