AI4QJ wrote:
I
myself would never attempt to observe the cat in Schrodinger's box since it
is not definitive of the state of the cat prior to observation. I do not
believe the same is true of the -j567 ohm impedance in Keith's box ;-)

In the real world, the person who manufactured our
black box in the first place has already collapsed the
probability function a long time ago. Now if that
person dies without telling anyone what's in the black
box, does the black box's contents revert to any
possibility? :-)

The difference is that Schrodinger's cat can die at any
time but the inanimate contents of our black box cannot
change with time. If we don't know what's in the black
box, we are simply ignorant. What we know or don't know
does not effect or affect the reality of what's already
in the black box.
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com