#Shrodinger's razor

[humornthoughts]

(Transcript for those of you with screen readers bcuz I couldn’t figure out how to attach it to the image itself on mobile for some reason)

Person 1:

Chekov's Cat: if you see a cat in the first act, it will probably be relevant later. (example: Alien)

Shrodinger's razor: an unopened box may or may not contain the solution to the story; there's no way to know without opening it. (example: Monk)

Occam's gun: the simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them. (example: Bambi)

Person 2:

Chekov's Box: If there is a container introduced in the opening act, it will be opened later.

Schrodinger's Gun: Treat every gun as if It's loaded unless you've checked it yourself.

Occar's Cat: If you hear strange noises at night, it's probably a cat.

Person 3:

Chekhov's gun: a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.

Occam's razor: if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.

Shrodingers cat- a cat in a box with poison that has a 50% chance of breaking, we will not know if the cat is dead or alive until opening the box leaving the cat in a perpetual state of uncertainty

[podplease]

Shrodinger's cat: made up, impossible, essentially a joke

Chekov's gun: not real and in fact implying he had it would probably annoy him

Russel's teapot: also made up but, while improbable, technically could exist

Okham's razor: actually i don't think i needed this one

Pavlov's dog: not only is it real, there was more than one of these

Chekov's gun: we already covered this one and i said it's no--💥🔫

[livingmeatloaf]

[IDs: First image is a 4x4 grid, with columns labeled Gun, Cat, Razor, Law and rows labeled Checkov's, Shrodinger's, Occam's, Murphy's. The boxes read as following.

Checkov's Gun: If a gun is introduced in the first act, it must be fired by the third.

Shrodinger's Gun: You can't know if a gun is loaded, or not, until the trigger is pulled

Occam's Gun: The simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them

Murphy's Gun: Any gun that can go off, will go off

Checkov's Cat: If a box is introduced in the first act, a cat must sit in it by the third

Shrodinger's Cat: An unopened box may contain a dead cat, or an alive one, and you won't know until you open it

Occam's Cat: If you hear a strange noise at night, it's probably a cat

Murphy's Cat: Any box that can contain a cat, will contain a cat

Checkov's Razor: The simplest way to fire a gun is to pull the trigger

Shrodinger's Razor: An unopened box may contain the solution to your problems

Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation is probably the correct one

Murphy's Razor: Anything that can be simple, will be simple

Checkov's Law: Every gun in a play will be fired

Shrodinger's Law: You can't know that things will go wrong, until they do

Occam's Law: Everything that can be explained, will be explained

Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong

Small text in the corner reads "Revx, MrBigBux, Halesnail, Venort. ATP". End first ID.

Second image is the same 4x4 grid, with columns labeled Gun, Cat, Razor, Law and rows labeled Checkov's, Shrodinger's, Occam's, Murphy's. This time it is on a dark background with similar text being consistent colors across the boxes, showing how the columns and rows interact. The boxes read as following.

Checkov's Gun: A gun introduced in the first act must be fired by the third act.

Shrodinger's Gun: A gun is both empty and loaded until fired

Occam's Gun: The simplest gun is usually the one to fire.

Murphy's Gun: Any gun that can be fired, will be fired.

Checkov's Cat: A dead cat introduced in the first act must be alive by the third act.

Shrodinger's Cat: A box contains both a dead and alive cat until opened.

Occam's Cat: The simplest cat is usually in a box.

Murphy's Cat: Any cat that can die, will die.

Checkov's Razor: An explanation introduced in the first act must be correct by the third act.

Shrodinger's Razor: An explanation contains both facts and nonsense until proven.

Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

Murphy's Razor: Any explaination that can be correct, will be correct.

Checkov's Law: Anything introduced in the first act must go wrong by the third act.

Shrodinger's Law: Anything has both gone wrong and gone right until it happens.

Occam's Law: Any explanation is usually wrong.

Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

End ID.]

[marvus-xoloto]

Okay the tags of ur one recent post has me thinking what WAS marvus doing in the teal/jade bathroom?? 🤔 Was he just hanging out? Was he hiding from zebruh after passing through the blue car lol. Was he hooking up? 👀 We may never know 😔

Occam's razor: maybe the jade / teal car is the only one with a bathroom. I didn't see one on any of the other cars. Plus the idea of Marvus understanding the bathroom as a liminal space that only exists as a plot device is really tickling my funny bone. He's sending snaps to MSPAR that are absolutely incomprehensible. "check it babe: chillin hard in shrodinger's shitter xo)"

[jelreth]

murphy's razor: the first action you take (the one youre hoping will work first try) can and will go wrong and only through trial and error will you achieve your goal

shrodinger's razor: you don't know whether the first solution will work until you try

occam's sword: the easiest solution is stabbing shit (usually works)

[randompolycomments]

Mix up for writing prompts!

Chekov's Razor:

If you've already introduced a plot element that works for this situation, and adding a new one won't add anything else, use what you've got! (an already existing shady organization can do your murder, you don't need to make up a new one!)

Occam's Cat:

If you're trying to figure out which way to go, with a plotline or character arc, it's okay to go with what you feel most comfortable to write(don't burn yourself up trying to come up with something so complex your reader can't guess it, or is totally unique[ It's fun to figure out plot points by piecing together clues, and nothing is totally unique except each of us! ] when you'd be happier writing and most people would be happier reading what you're happy writing! )

Shrodinger's Gun:

Just because you created a cool power/ weapon/ space station doesn't mean that it HAS to be used in the final conclusion, but it doesn't mean it's not cool to USE! (I'M LOOKING AT YOU DBZ!, and the inverse is the "WHY DO THEY NEVER USE THAT ONE POWER THAT WOULD BE PERFECT HERE!")

These are not laws, or suggestions. I'm not a lawyer, I never even played one on tv!

But they might help you on your next campaign!

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

[slightlydraconic]

Occam's Gun: the best tool is the one that gets the job done the fastest Chekov's Razor: a simple explanation introduced in the first act must be relevant to the third Shrodinger's Gun: a gun is both loaded and unloaded until it is fired Chekov's Cat: a cat that's alive in the first act must be dead by the third, and vice-versa Murphy's Cat: anything the cat can fuck up, it will Murphy's Cat's Gun: wait shit does that cat have a gun?? oh n

[msclaritea]

I just remembered this. I wrote it around 2015. It was fun. We spoke a lot about multiverses back then and joked about Sherlock and John living a happier life somewhere else. But the presence of this book also tells us that multiverses were in play, which would make it easy for a writer to present one story on the surface, while a different story played underneath.

For the record, I don't believe this has anything to do with Disney & DS2. The Multiverse was brought out in comics long ago and we all know the script for DS2 was supposed to be different. But the above meta highlights a writing technique not many are familiar with and it's been around quite a long time.

~The Multiverse & The Blind Banker~

Another Easter Egg.

Look familiar? “Iain M. Banks’ latest novel Transition…will jelly your brains in brilliant weirdness. Banks turns political world-building on its head in this exciting tale of an Earth-based multiverse in turmoil…”

“Set between the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the 2008 financial crisis, Transition centres on a shadowy organisation called “The Concern” (also known as “L'Expédience”), and how the workings of this organisation affect the lives of the novel’s multiple narrators and characters. Banks uses the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics theory to imagine “infinitudes” of parallel realities, between which The Concern’s agents—known as Transitionaries—can “flit”, intervening in events to produce what The Concern sees as beneficial outcomes for that world. Transitioning, or flitting, is only possible for people with a predisposed talent for such movement, who may only flit after ingesting a mysterious drug called “septus”.

Have they used multiverses in Sherlock? Yes, they have. From @waitingforgarridebs​  the-penultimate-problem-of-sherlock-holmes: ACD alive in  BBC Sherlock

Many-worlds interpretation Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual “world” (or “universe”). In layman’s terms, the hypothesis states there is a very large—perhaps infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes.

Of course, there would have to be mention of a Cat: The quantum-mechanical “Schrödinger’s cat” theorem according to the many-worlds interpretation. In this interpretation, every event is a branch point; the cat is both alive and dead, even before the box is opened, but the “alive” and “dead” cats are in different branches of the universe, both of which are equally real, but which do not interact with each other.

Why do this? I guess you could say they did try to give us a head’s up.

[tsunderful]

Schrodinger's-

Gun: The gun is fired simultaneously in the first and third acts. Dog: The dog is both salivating and not salivating Razor: The head is both shaved and not shaved Law: The amount of transistors in a microchip is both halved and doubled every two years Monster: Frankenstein is both the doctor and the monster World: The public access television show is both cancelled and not cancelled Believe it or not!: The book is filled with incredible and boring facts about the world.

___’s cat

Chekhov: If you see a cat mounted on the wall in the first act it must be in a box by the third act Pavlov: He rang a bell at boxing time, causing it to die and be alive at the same time Occam: The simplest solution is to look in the box Moore’s: The number of cats in a box doubles every two years Frankenstien’s: Actually, Shrodinger was the cat Wayne’s: He must save his public access cat Ripley: A box filled with incredible cats

i am not taking questions at this time