After foiling a murder attempt by his time-traveling grandson, Professor Thaddeus Fitch tries to explain Schrödinger’s cat to his class of undergraduates.
Some assert that the realm of quantum mechanics is so removed from the realm of our senses we’re unequipped to judge.

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  1. “Inside the Box” by Edward M. Lerner, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2008.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Edward M. Lerner