Nothing about this makes any sense. The cat is an analogy, the box is an analogy. Everything about that thought experiment is an analogy.<p>The moon is still there, even if noone looks up into the night sky. The cat is either alive or dead because it is constantly "observed." That's why there's no differnce between a glass box and a metal box. Observation in the quantum mechanical sense doesn't mean that the author has to eyeball an object. It means that the object interacts with its environment (e.g. the particles of the cat interact with each other and the particles in the air).<p>The analogy with statistics, that quantum mechanics is simply the evolution of "what we know" is not correct either. A superposition is much more than that. When a particle is in superposition of two states, it can interact with itself as if it was in one state and as if there was another particle in the other one (but there has never been a second particle).<p>If you simply assume that you "don't know" in which state it was and that it would still behave classically, you would not be able to explain the double-slit experiment. You also wouldn't be able to explain why light is slower in a dielectric. Also, physics would be way easier.<p>P.S.: What the hell are those little snow flakes on that website. At first I thought I was seeing stars and that I was about to pass out...