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There's a thought experiment called Schrödinger's Cat.
It goes something like this: You put a cat in a box with some unstable gunpowder that
has a 50-50 chance of blowing up in the next minute.
Until we look in the box, we don't know whether the cat is dead or alive.
And when we do look, it is either dead or alive. But not both.
If we repeat the experiment enough times, with enough boxes and cats and gunpowder,
we'll see that half the time, kitty survives. And half the time,
kitty goes bye-bye. The quantum mechanical interpretation is that before we look,
the cat is in a superposition--it is both alive and dead.
And our act of looking forces nature's decision. So our curiosity kills the cat.
Schrödinger put forward this idea to show the absurdity of quantum theory.
We put forward this idea to show the absurdity of chance.
Don't be the cat. Molly's not worth the risk.