::Open RP - A and kitties in the Great Hall::

[i_am_an_hero]

It was exciting, exploring the internet on the computer Matt had given him, but Einstein and Schrodinger tended to get bored within the confines of A's small room, especially when A wasn't paying attention to them

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[jezzthespoon]

"You have another one," Jezz observed, coming up with a viper around his arm and a somewhat better-behaved Ragari perched on his shoulder. He thought back. "Schrodinger and...?"

[i_am_an_hero]

"And Einstein," A said with a smile, holding out a scrap of meat from his sandwich. Between hearing his name and the tempting morsel of roast beef, the usually indolent feline trotted up, pulling himself up on his hindquarters to bat at the offered snack.

[jezzthespoon]

"Keheneshnef and Ragari," Jezz offered in return, indicating the viper and the raven. Keheneshnef hissed.

[i_am_an_hero]

"Greetings, Keheneshnef. Greetings, Ragari." A snake and a bird don't seem nearly as companionable to A as cats (or, he admits to himself, a friendly puppy like Koopa), but Jezz seems fond of them.

[jezzthespoon]

"Ragari's name comes from a word in my tongue. Ragar. It means 'find.'" He'd named Keheneshnef thus because it sounded cool at the time, but wasn't about to admit it. "What do 'Schrodinger' and 'Einstein' come from?"

[i_am_an_hero]

"They are names of scientists. Schrodinger was a scientist who came up with a theoretical experiment that involved a cat, and since she was named for a scientist, of course Einstein had to be."

[jezzthespoon]

Jezz had the general idea of what a scientist was, but did not hold them in particularly high regard. Coming from a place where magic existed and stunted technological development, this was somewhat justifiable. "These scientists. In your world are they like mages?"

He neglected to recall A probably lacked context for "like mages."

[i_am_an_hero]

"I don't know what a mage is," A said rather predictably. "Scientists discover and invent things."

[jezzthespoon]

"It's another term for someone who practices magic. Some mages do something like that in mine, developing spells." He'd heard of Tenser, Mordenkainen, elven and drow equivalents. "Most simply practice the spells they learn. It's more of a profession than in this part of the world." Where just about everyone counted themselves a wizard. Mages he were familiar with could have vastly different jobs, to be sure, but their magic defined them more.

[i_am_an_hero]

"Oh. I think there are more kinds of science than that. Mages sound a little like scientists of magic."

It's the experimentation that does it.

[jezzthespoon]

"Perhaps." He pulled up a chair. "And what do your scientists work with? Alchemy and machinery, I've gathered."

[i_am_an_hero]

"It depends on what sort of scientist they are. Biologists study living things, astronomers study the stars, geologists study the earth, stones, there are many kinds of scientists."

[jezzthespoon]

He got the attention of a house elf and a glass of butterbeer. "Was the original Schrodinger a biologist?"

[i_am_an_hero]

"Schrodinger and Einstein were physicists," A told him. "They study how the universe behaves and the nature of time and space."

[jezzthespoon]

He took a sip. "How was a cat involved?"

[i_am_an_hero]

"It was purely theoretical, a thought experiment." He describes the Schrodinger's cat paradox as simply as he could. "Nobody actually did it."