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Dante and Schrödinger's cat

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Dr Cristian Ispir
Oct 22, 2025
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A Classic a Day: Heart of the Inferno

As Dante was trekking through Hell, he bumped against Schrödinger’s cat.

In Inferno 33, Dante encounters a paradox as uncanny as any in modern physics: a man both dead and alive, depending on where one looks.

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