“Curiosity killed Schrödinger’s cat in a box”…..

We have probably heard of the famous “Schrödinger’s cat” school of thousght in “pop culture” but it consequentially illustrates the probability and/or improbability in reality according to quantum mechanics.  Here is a step by step paradoxical description:

  • Put a cat in a box with an unstable radioactive gas mechanism (Erwin Schrödinger’s version)or explosive gunpowder (Albert Einstein version) that has a 50% chance of blowing up or 50% percent chance of not blowing up. The gunpowder/radioactive gas is in a state of superposition by being either blowing or not blowing up. System 1.
  •  I am not sure if the cat is alive or dead unless i look inside to see. So it is in a state of “chaos”.
  • If i repeat the experiment multiple “even” times and look inside there is a 50% possibility that the cat is alive or dead but never both.
  • The quantum relation is that the cat inside the box (before I look) is in a state of superposition of being dead or alive at the same time (System 2). My curiosity which is satisfied by looking into the box forces a “state of determinacy” to either choose being alive or dead. So unequivocally “my curiosity has killed the cat”.
  •  The other perspective in this thought experiment is the cat. The cat either sees the gas/bomb explode or doesn’t see nothing happen. So inside the box, there are only two possibilities that are equally possible and leaving no possibility of the bomb/gas exploding without the cat seeing it.
  • So the fate/state of the cat is “quantum entangled”  with the the indeterminacy of the bomb.This is a total or combined quantum system of two systems.
  • Therefore it is my curiosity which forces nature to move from a “state of  quantum entangled superposed systems or chaos” (dead or alive plus explode or not explode)” to a “determined outcome (explode and dead or not explode and alive)”. The system is deterministic based on quantum state’s time dependency and the quantum state prior to measurement is in chaos because it is in superposition.
  • This observation can also be extended from my perspective to a “outsider looking at me or how many other realities producing other outcomes or aren’t I, the observer or measurer bounded by the laws of quantum mechanics and subject to time”. The question is Who is observing me as I look into the box to determine the outcome of the cat? So I, looking into a box could also be indeterminate because there is a possibility that I don’t look.  So I myself is in a “state of superposition”.  Is information  sent between the cat and explosion greater than the speed of light? The collapse into reality was at what time either at the time if measurement or interaction with the explosion or when the observer measured? The problems in quantum mechanics leads to the multiverse/parallel universes, faster than speed of light phenomena, measurement problem, non-locality and the length of time until the collapse of superposition into one reality which is highly debated school of thought in quantum mechanics which includes EPR paradox, quantum entanglement, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, pilot wave, Everett’s Many worlds ,Niels Bohr’s Copenhagen interpretation. 
Limit of uncertainty of cat ‘s physical state as a function of either momentum or position not both regardless of the influence of the observer- Heinsberg’s Uncertainty principle.
The energy-change of  an isolated quantum state over time
Erwin Schrödinger- Nobel prize winning Austrian physicist