Thinking Inside the Box: Heisenberg’s Indeterminancy Principle, the Paradox of Schrodinger’s Cat, and Television

2. Why do thought experiments take the form of stories? What is there about narrative that lends itself to this use?

3. How are Oscar's experiments with potential biological weapons related to the Schrodinger’s cat experiment? What does each say about scientific objectivity?

4. How does the frame story—Dietrich and Kranz's memos about the journal—alter the outcome of the experiment and the impact of the story?

5. What is the effect of telling the story entirely through documents rather than having a single narrator recount it?