No paradox with this Schrödinger!
What a treat!
First thing after my first coffee of the day, I have a look at Cat Of The Day. The moment Cat Schrödinger's image came up on the screen, I was chirrupping enthusiastically. What a cat!
Schrödinger's Cat is sometimes called Schrödinger's Paradox. It is necessary to have a good understanding of quantum mechanics and its various interpretations to really understand this elegant thought experiment proposed by Schrödinger and which he discussed at length with Albert Einstein. Suffice to say here that, due to the superposition of various quantum states, it is proposed that the cat in this experiment is simultaneously alive and dead. A great deal of discussion and argumentation entails just when the cat is either alive or dead. Quantum mechanics is a statistical probability approach to the way the world functions. Hithertofore, as with Newtonian physics, the model entailed that there was one definite account of such things. No longer. The eminent physicist, great educator (I had the great boon of studying with him), Richard Feynman invented diagrams, Feynman Diagrams, tracing all the possible trajectories taken by a sub-atomic particle. Some had an extremely low probability, others a very high probabilty, and the frequency distributiion was normal. The logical outcome entails that ALL of these trajectories were indeed possible, but some much more probable than others. This led to other seeming paradoxes, such as an hypothesis that there are simultaneously many worlds, and that each of these many proposed trajectories are realised in one of them. There are any number of proposed resolutions to the apparent paradoxical implications of quantum mechanics. This is extremely important to physical science, not merely an amusement.
How can it be that the cat exists simultaneously alive and dead? This is the crux. It is a very elegant thought experiment with very profound implications for physics.
But your Cat Schrödinger is no paradox at all: he is so winning and beautiful that it really made my day just to see him. I know that his lovely visage will long linger in my mind and heart. What a cat!