Boltzmann, Planck, Heisenberg. What is the common theme?
Well. Uncertainty. Schroedinger's cat is maybe the culmination of this way of thinking. The effect just does not instantiate, until YOU look at it. To ultimately resolve the riddle is akin to blasphemy, it seems. Is it 'god' versus the 'observer', -ie US, leading to the collapse of the wave function? ... it is the reduction of the physical possibilities into a single possibility as seen by an OBSERVER. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse Guenter