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"Dr. Wise," she said. Not a question.

He opened the box.

Dr. Sheldon Wise was, by all accounts, a man who had unriddled the universe and found it disappointingly tidy. dr. sheldon wise

Sheldon reached out. His gloved fingers hovered over the cat’s flank. He could feel nothing through the lead-lined rubber, but his wristwatch—his perfectly calibrated, quantum-noise-corrected wristwatch—began to flicker. The second hand ticked backward. He opened the box

"Unless," Edith said, "the environment inside the box was designed to preserve coherence. No air currents. No thermal noise. A perfect vacuum except for the cat. And the cat, Dr. Wise, has been asleep the entire time." Sheldon reached out

Sheldon stared. "That’s absurd. Felines lack metacognitive self-awareness sufficient to collapse a wavefunction."

"You’re proposing a stable superposition lasting decades? Quantum decoherence would have occurred in microseconds—"