Questions tagged [schroedingers-cat]

In Schrödinger's cat experiment, the quantum mechanical system is expanded from the atom to a nearby cat, but there is no justification for stoppning the expansion there. It is natural also to include the observer/observing system in the same…

What difference does it makes if the same experiment is conducted with a transparent box? I mean what is the significant of the opaque box in the original thought experiment? Can't we observe the radioactive decay in progress? Isn't this experiment…