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Are you guys serious the cat obviously wrote the paper and just needed the Professor human for credibility. This is just like that movie with the rat in the chef hat , but it's a cat and a physicist
- Do you think it was a cat in the hat
- I think you mean Raccacoonie, the raccoon?
- Cattenheimer.

I would too, like to speak to the co-author
- Pspspspsps

Anyone have an recent example of FDC Willard being thanked in a paper? I couldn't find any, sadly
- There are some listed on the Wikipedia page, which also contains this gem in the 'quick facts' section.
  Known for. First cat to co-author a physics paper
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
- But I guess we can have "FDC Willard numbers" in the same way we can have Erdős numbers, right?

how is it that cats make everything better?
- By being perfect wonderful creatures. Duh.

That's a long lasting tradition to use "we" even in solo authored papers. I believe even Newton did this
- That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. We believe even Newton did this
  
  If our knowledge is based on our forebears, it would always be we.
- The 2nd referee will nonetheless tell you to get rid of all of them
  
  The second referee once told us that our paper should not be published at all.
  Eventually, it made it to the Editor's choice section of the journal
- Yup, that was a requirement for most papers at my uni. We also use the plural you to show respect, even when talking to a single person.
  
  Reject modernity, embrace tradition 😆

This makes me happy

Sure, it's a cute story, but what about prof's grad students sitting in the background with weepy eyes?
- They should know better than to be where the public can see them

He does exude an air of competence and arrogance in equal measure. Clearly tenured.

Find and replace "I" with "we"? Nah, we adding the kitty
- Find and replace
  a feature typewriters used in 1975 were famous for
  
  Didn't catch the year ahaha
- that's how you end up with dawizards
  
  I was confused at first. Then, I realized that when they replaced ‘mage’ with ‘wizard’, ‘damage’ became ‘dawizard’. It is actually hilarious.
  
  On my device that’s one of those websites that don’t allow using the Back button.
  Neat.
- Isn't "I" considered poor form? I was taught to always write in passive but "we" is kind of the accepted exception.

This is totally valid. Rubber duck debugging is a thing. Heck, I've literally been a "Rubber Duck" for more than one person. I'm sure that Chester heard enough of the theory of the paper to claim the title of "~~Rubber Duck~~ Live Cat Debugger."

https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.35.1442
The referenced paper
- damn, I thought there would be a pawprint
  
  The pawprint we were all looking for.

It would have been a really hot topic of discussion if his last name had been Schrödinger.

Reminds me of Yuri Knorozov and his cat Asya

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