[daine]

I am a particle physicist, and this article is confused. The substitution of a glass box _fundamentally_ changes the experiment by allowing phenomena inside the box to correlate with phenomena outside (including your senses). This isn't magic, it's the natural result of light exchanging between stuff inside and out. In the biz, we call this smearing of correlations 'decoherence.'

As for whether the cat 'is' both "dead and alive" in the true black-box Schrodinger scenario, that's very much up for debate. Theorists and philosophers have yet to reach a consensus on how to interpret quantum mechanics, though progress is being made--our quantitative understanding of 'decoherence' being one example.

Don't be fooled: this is an open question.

For more on interpretations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_m...