The Tesla Device

I wanted to take a moment to reflect on an earlier idea that occurred to me while watching the film "The Prestige." (If you are interested in Nikola Tesla and have not seen this film, you really should. David Bowie makes for a great Tesla!) The film is based on the book of the same name by Christopher Priest. Priest introduces us to a unique Tesla invention, simply known as "the device" which has strange powers. This device is apparently a fiction of the author, although fits well with Tesla's strange experiments. The device makes a 3D (fully functional) copy or simulation of whatever passes into it. It will copy living beings as well as inanimate objects, however it only copies hats, black cats, rubber balls and people in the film. The device become part of a horrible illusion which I will not spoil. When I think about this device and it's portrayal in the film I am aware that the use of the animal particularly a black cat has great significance. 1.) A cat was used as the subject of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment of Quantum Mechanics. 2.) A cat represents curiosity. 3.) A cat represents the occult and otherworldly, especially a black one. Priest, I believe is pointing to the QM by using a cat in the initial experiments with the device. What is the hidden meaning of its use? It is likely that if such a device were to exist, it would function by attracting a mirror image version of the presented object from another universe and teleporting it back. This device is a quantum 3D copy machine!