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You may remember my post<\/a> on Schr\u00f6dinger’s pizza. Of course, you may not, so go ahead and re-read it. I can wait. La la la la. Welcome back! All set? Fully grounded in pizza and coffee and their relationship to quantum physics? Great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was thinking today. Yes, as difficult as that may be to believe, I WAS thinking today. I was thinking that Ed McMahon\u2019s commercials for Publishers Clearing House with his signature catchphrase: \u201cYou may already be a winner!\u201d\u00a0are another example of the “dead and not dead” behavior of Schr\u00f6dinger’s cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be a winner, yet you may not be a winner, but both are true until you open the envelope with the sweepstake’s entry in it. This is a different behavior than if you buy a lottery ticket and the drawing has not happened yet, because you are neither a winner nor a loser at that point. But it seems to be very, very similar to the cat in Schr\u00f6dinger’s thought experiment before you open the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Some may argue that you are a loser for believing that you will be a winner in the lottery, but someone<\/em> wins every now and again, so almost everyone is a loser, but, don’t worry, you are not a loser. Really, you are not.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go ahead and add Ed McMahon and Publishers Clearing House to pizza companies as physicist-employing marketers. Oh, and you may already be a winner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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