Professor meow meow
CyberTailor, 
Reminds me of Yuri Knorozov and his cat Asya
AngryCommieKender, 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.”
ParabolicMotion, It would have been a really hot topic of discussion if his last name had been Schrödinger.
DragonTypeWyvern, He does exude an air of competence and arrogance in equal measure. Clearly tenured.
woodytrombone, journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/…/PhysRevLett.35.1442
The referenced paper
hswolf, 
damn, I thought there would be a pawprint
Dicska, The pawprint we were all looking for.
Rolando, Sure, it’s a cute story, but what about prof’s grad students sitting in the background with weepy eyes?
DragonTypeWyvern, (edited ) They should know better than to be where the public can see them
humbletightband, That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. I believe even Newton did this
Shareni, 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.
humbletightband, Reject modernity, embrace tradition 😆
summerof69, That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. We believe even Newton did this
bane_killgrind, If our knowledge is based on our forebears, it would always be we.
Mo5560, The 2nd referee will nonetheless tell you to get rid of all of them
humbletightband, The second referee once told us that our paper should not be published at all.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
beebarfbadger, Did he say YOU shouldn’t publish it or it shouldn’t be published?
humbletightband, I suspect they were a rival of my co-author, that’s why they didn’t want it to be published. Or they didn’t want me to be published in this journal.
The communication is happening through journal’s editors, so they could not explicitly write that they don’t want ME to be publish papers.
fristislurper, 
Anyone have an recent example of FDC Willard being thanked in a paper? I couldn’t find any, sadly
Cheradenine, 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
Rolando, But I guess we can have “FDC Willard numbers” in the same way we can have Erdős numbers, right?
scarilog, Find and replace “I” with “we”? Nah, we adding the kitty
noodlejetski, Find and replace
a feature typewriters used in 1975 were famous for
scarilog, Didn’t catch the year ahaha
lars, and even today
. . . as we I are describing below . . .
beebarfbadger, . . . as we are descrwebweng below . . .
nicknonya, 
that’s how you end up with dawizards
pancakesyrupyum, On my device that’s one of those websites that don’t allow using the Back button.
Neat.
fckreddit, I was confused at first. Then, I realized that when they replaced ‘mage’ with ‘wizard’, ‘damage’ became ‘dawizard’. It is actually hilarious.
nicknonya, it’s a Scunthorpe problem but even nerdier
Mo5560, Isn’t “I” considered poor form? I was taught to always write in passive but “we” is kind of the accepted exception.
riodoro1, how is it that cats make everything better?
melpomenesclevage, By being perfect wonderful creatures. Duh.
K0W4LSK1, 
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
ryannathans, Do you think it was a cat in the hat
Rolando, Cattenheimer.
Shard, I think you mean Raccacoonie, the raccoon?
Grass, This makes me happy
lowleveldata, I would too, like to speak to the co-author
SnokenKeekaGuard, 
Pspspspsps
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