Traces of schrödınger’s cat ın adalet ağaoğlu’s novel hayır

Schrödinger’s cat is a theory put forward by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. According to this theory based on the thought experiment, it is assumed that there is a cat inside a closed box and a mechanism that becomes active depending on some conditions. This mechanism consists of a radioactive atom with a 50 percent probability of deterioration and a bottle with cyanide in it. If the radioactive atom is broken, the mechanism will be triggered and the bottle will break. Therefore, the poison released from the bottle will cause the death of the cat. If this atom is not broken, the mechanism will not work and therefore the cat will continue its life from where it left off. In the context of parallel universes, the cat will be considered both alive and dead, unless observation is made in the experimental box. This experiment indicates that the impossibility of the third state is possible. In Schrödinger’s cat experiment, what matters is not whether the cat survives, but the realization that the cat is on the fine line between death and life. From this point of view, it can be said that such a similar thought experiment exists in Adalet Ağaoğlu’s novel Hayır. The purpose of this study is to reveal that Schrödinger’s cat experiment carries traces in this novel.