The President of Schrödinger

I assume you are familiar with the famous quantum cat experiment.

Physicist Erwin Schrödinger encloses a cat in a box that has exactly a 50% chance of being poisoned: according to quantum mechanics, until the box is opened the cat is not dead or alive, but is both alive and dead .

This is how things appear as these lines are being written.

President Donald Trump has been both re-elected and defeated;

candidate Joe Biden is both the new president of the United States and a failed candidate in the dustbin of history.

It is possible (I wish it were so) that the reader has already left the quantum uncertainty and knows how the cat is.

But it doesn't seem likely.

If in some States the difference is very small, it will be necessary to carry out counts;

If Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump (and by the morning of this Wednesday, November 4, he continued to be without any doubt: he said he had won) there will be legal recourse.

Calm.

The time-dependent Schrödinger equation (reality changes every microsecond) begins with an i which means imaginary unit.

Although I do not understand what the imaginary unit means, or the rest of the equation, I suspect that these things are complicated enough to reflect the political situation in the United States.

One has already experienced a similar situation 20 years ago.

On November 7, 2000, Democrat Al Gore proclaimed that he had won Florida, and virtually the presidency, shortly after the polls closed.

The polls gave him a large majority.

At ten o'clock at night it was not clear.

At 2:30, 85% of the tally showed George W. Bush as the winner and Gore called him to admit defeat.

By 4:30, the difference between the two had narrowed to 2,000 votes and Gore was back in the race.

Lawyers

In the weeks that followed, as legions of lawyers went through the ballots one by one (don't assume it's that easy: in Florida, you can vote for a president and many other offices at the same time, such as the mayor of the local school, and both the ballots and the machines that register them seem designed by Schrödinger on a hangover day), the correspondents dragged our feet through Palm Beach, the epicenter of discord, waiting for a decision that the Supreme Court ended up taking in Washington.

The opinion is quite widespread that before Trump nobody forced the institutional mechanisms of the United States.

It turns out that the Bush campaign manager in Florida (where Bush's brother Jeb ruled) was also Florida's secretary of state, that is, the person responsible for counting the votes.

Katherine Harris, judge and party, prevented all Palm Beach votes from being counted and proclaimed Bush's victory.

Gore appealed.

The Florida Supreme Court agreed with him.

The matter went to the Supreme Court in Washington, where it was ruled that what had happened in Florida was a botch.

The Supreme Court also ruled that Florida state law did not allow for anything other than botch and therefore it was best to leave things as they were.

George W. Bush was declared the winner by 537 votes, 0.009% of the ballots cast.

The 20 years ago shows that Republicans accumulate experience in legal battles of this type.

It is also true that the Democratic candidate of the time, Al Gore, was not the right man for fights in the mud.

Columnist Maureen Dowd said of Gore that she had tried so hard to be a feminist, a diversity advocate, and ecologically correct that she just lacked the ability to breastfeed and breastfeed babies.

It will be necessary to see what pasta Joe Biden is made of.

We already know Trump's pasta, and it doesn't take a quantum imagination to guess how far it will go.

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