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Shorten's cat, that was a thought experiment, it was produced many many years ago. And the idea behind it was you have a cat in the box, and it goes along the lines of quantum mechanics where an observer actually changes the outcome of an experiment. And this one here you have a cat in the box, you have a file of lethal poison in there, and you have a radioactive sample that's decaying over a period of time. You don't know exactly what it's decaying, but you know it's decaying. And what it does decay is a chance that the decay particles could break the file and let the poison out, which will kill the cat in the box. And until you actually look in the box, you don't know what the cat is alive or dead, so you can think of that as a super positional state. It's in all states, so you're actually looking in there to see which one has actually occurred.