Paradox Cat
Dead yet alive
Anti-Unit
Rank: D
Description:
Erwin Schrödinger’s famous paradox, crystallized into a Noble Phantasm. The paradox consisted on introducing a cat in a box with a flask of cyanide and a hammer connected to a radioactivity counter. By irradiating the outside of the box, the counter would make the hammer fall and break the flask. With this, the cat would effectively be poisoned without having to open the box. Now, is the cat alive or dead? The truth can only be known by checking inside the box. As long as the box is unchecked, the cat can be either alive or dead. According to Schrödinger, this would mean that the cat can be considered to be alive and dead at the same time.
By using this Noble Phantasm, Schrödinger summons a feline creature that follows the concept of this paradox. Through a phenomenon similar to Multi-Dimensional Refraction, the cat is in a state that combines life and death. As a result, it seems to be impossible to kill, as it’s technically dead despite it being alive. This makes it a hard opponent despite the relatively low damage it can inflict, although there is a great flaw: since it can’t be dead in order to attack, it becomes vulnerable when attacking. This is similar to how Assassins’
Presence Concealment drops at the moment of striking. Another alternative – albeit uncommon – way to break through this Noble Phantasm is the usage of an attack whose usage involves the Multi-Dimensional Refraction Phenomenon, allowing to defeat the creature without having to wait for the most critical moment.
Definiens Omnia Fluctus
Defining everything as a wave
Anti-System
Rank: EX
Description:
Schrödinger’s second Noble Phantasm is based on her wave equation, considered the most complete description that can be given to a physical system. Solutions to this equation can describe any system no matter its size, from subatomic to universal level. It is central to every application of quantum mechanics, included quantum field theory, which combines it with Einstein’s relativity. Not even string theory modifies the results of the equation. If there is any other formula that has helped to define the world at a similar level, it would be Newton’s second law, used in classical mechanics rather than on quantum mechanics.
A particle is defined by Schrödinger as a standing wave, bouncing permanently on “walls” that define the body of said particle. By assigning wave functions to a mass, the standing waves of its particles become traveling waves that cause damage to the surroundings. Depending on the function assigned, the waves can be as strong as those created during a low intensity seismic movement. Although the waves are damaging, they can be used defensively as well, provoking an interference with incoming attacks that nullifies their damage and lets Schrödinger be unharmed.
Since this is a Noble Phantasm that defines the physical world, its only disadvantage is its inability to reach the realm of the spiritual. The existence of the particles of the soul, the Spiritrons, wasn’t taken into account by Schrödinger, what makes them be unaffected by the NP. Attacks that strike the mind or the soul can’t be defended either.
Originally Posted by Kabalisto Koga
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