When Schrödinger Met the Box: Reassessing Quantum Reality

The piece revisits Schrödinger’s 1935 cat-in-a-box thought experiment, used to critique interpretations of quantum mechanics by suggesting a system could be in a live-and-dead superposition until observed. It notes Schrödinger’s letter to Einstein and the ongoing debate over whether reality collapses to a definite state at measurement, highlighting the origin and stakes of the quantum measurement problem.