What Colour...

[factor-fiction]

was Schrödinger's cat?

[Peter Pedant]

Now from another thread, ( Baghadad Battery etc )
Deng Shaiao Ping famously commented - it doesnt matter what colour the cat is, if it is dead..... whereas if it were alive......

[kvalidir]

If he wants to post an unnecessary question he's probably black otherwise it'll be ginger- they're always trouble causers:)

[Old_Geezer]

It was every colour, until you looked.

[heathfield]

I'm uncertain.

[dunnitall]

Whatever colour it wants to be?

[inksplotter]

The cat was no colour, because it was a thought experiment.

[jim360]

A linear superposition of all possible colours -- so probably Black on average.

[heathfield]

That makes it white, Jim.

[factor-fiction]

I think white is right, heathfield, if we are talking about light, but if it were talking about paints I think the answer may be black.

[jim360]

I had White initially but then that's light where the colours mix to give white, and for fur/ pigmentation/ paints etc, mixing colours together would tend towards black. Or perhaps an ugly sort of muddy brown.

[Calibax]

Two-tone?

[inksplotter]

Surely the colour of Schrödinger's cat would be the colour of the cat owned by Mr Schrödinger?

[treetops68]

It's all in the eye of the beholder (i.e. everyone will percieve a different colour.)

[mibn2cweus]

Surely, some eighty years on, any question concerning some former state of Schrödinger's cat must be a purely rhetorical question?

[inksplotter]

Surely a question with answers is not rhetorical?

[wolf63]

http://www.herdofcats.ca/files/images/SchrodingerRandom.jpg

This is proof of the colour.

[atalanta]

half black, half white. Half dead, half alive.

[NiceCupOfTea]

He was a ginger moggy. At least, he was in the picture in my textbook, and textbooks never lie (although the cat was definitely lying down, and alive come to that...)