Atomic Kitty & The Ministry of Certainty: The Cat Who Refused to Be a Thought Experiment

At the Institute for Domestic Particle Studies, Chamber Seven exists for one purpose: to make the impossible measurable.

Inside it sits a small silver kitten with luminous eyes, officially designated F-CAT-9A. The scientists offer her controlled choices. They measure her behavior. They record her responses. They believe they are studying an anomalous domestic organism, perhaps intelligent, perhaps dangerous, but still something that can be classified, contained, and understood.

The kitten dis...