Physics and Felines

[jducoeur]

Experiment: feline subject J (Jedi) is in the great room at the far end of the house. Human (me) opens window W in the bedroom because it is a nice day. Measure time required for J to reach W to look out it and sniff. Time appears to be zero. Conclusion: felines can violate relativity and achieve faster-than-light speeds when sufficiently motivated.

(Yes, yes, there are other possible explanations. Jedi might be clairvoyant, for example, knowing that I am *going* to open the window, and thus has set out for the bedroom before I began opening it. Or he might be employing some form of quantum tunneling. Either way, though, it's a fine topic for future research...)

Comments

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

It may be that in cat form it has similar predictive properties, such that the cat moves before the window is actually opened because parts of the cat extend into the near future, motivating movement *before* the window opening starts. One wonders if arresting the opening of the window before completion of the act would then cause the cat in motion to seek other sources of outside air (much like trying to prevent the wetting of pre-dissolved thiotimoline), perhaps causing the cat to pass through the (now-closed) window and thus achieving outside air anyway.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Some kind of tunneling, eh? Maybe that's why my cat likes to tunnel under the blankets.