I listen to the news when I walk after work. I just like knowing what’s going on in the world, and the news gives me something to focus on other than how tired I am of walking in circles.<\/p>\n
There was a horrifying segment on mass graves in Iraq<\/a>. Over 7000 missing persons reports were filed in Baghdad between 2005 and 2007.<\/p>\n Seven thousand civilians have disappeared.<\/p>\n What struck me the hardest was a comment by a man who’s brother is still missing.<\/p>\n “He is not a dead person, yet he is not a living person, either.”<\/p>\n It struck me that this is Schr\u00c3\u00b6dinger’s cat<\/a> at it’s most horrible, and I wonder whether these situations were what Schr\u00c3\u00b6dinger had in mind at some point.<\/p>\n Schr\u00c3\u00b6dinger lived through both World War I and World War II–and in fact left German because of Hitler. When he created his example of Schr\u00c3\u00b6dinger’s Cat, I wonder whether it was the situations of the families after WWI and during WWII that brought this to mind.<\/p>\n How horrible for these families to have no closure. To be living Schr\u00c3\u00b6dinger’s dilemma, not knowing whether their loved ones are alive or dead.<\/p>\n And this situation has been repeated since WWII<\/a>, and throughout history.<\/p>\n