@Anonymous The point is people (laymen and non-science majors, many of which are taking frosci) aren’t gonna remember Schroedinger’s equation. Nor are they going to remember the crux of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty. They’re gonna remember that cat that’s alive or dead or both or something, and that silly Schroedinger man who came up with it. I have no way of knowing the contents of that Frontiers lecture, however I simply hope they delved into it a little further than just explaining how the cat is alive and dead.

This is partially because I remember sitting in my principles of econ lecture not too long ago and hearing someone (presumably a Columbia College, or perhaps Barnard student in which case all this is pointless criticism anyway) lamenting about how she didn’t think quantum mechanics was real and how it just seems silly. Naturally I am now doing the only reasonable thing: anonymously complaining about it on the internet.