Schrödinger’s cat, by Clifford Thurlow
leer en español You may wonder what my new book and Schrödinger’s cat have in common. The answer is almost certainly nothing at all.Except that my new book, like Schrödinger’s cat, currently exists in two mutually exclusive states. It may fly high. It may sink like a dead weight. Until publication, both possibilities remain in equal contention.Long ago, in what now feels like another age, I applied to Cambridge to study English. When the reply dropped through the letterbox, my destiny had been reduced to a single sheet of A4.While I held the unopened envelope, something peculiar was happening. I was simultaneously a future Cambridge undergraduate and a reject. Both possibilities existed until I opened the letter.And there it was: not Cambridge. A 'reject.'This is where Schrödinger’s...