Rajapaksas’ Tiger
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“….the discipline man needed most
Was to learn his submission to unreason….
So he won’t find it hard to take his orders
From his inferiors in intelligence
In peace and war….
Robert Frost (A Masque of Reason)
( July 6, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In Rajapaksa Sri Lanka, Schrödinger’s cat is a Tiger.
In Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought-experiment, a cat was kept in a box for one hour, together with a poison vial, a Geiger Counter and a radioactive atom – all hypothetical. If the atom decays, the Geiger Counter will detect radiation, the vial will break and the cat will die. If the atom does not decay, the cat will be fine. So for that one hour, the hypothetical cat is both dead and alive.
