Schrödinger's Cat

You know Schrödinger's cat, right?

The thought experiment wherein you put a cat, a poison and a radioactive substance in the box, along with a sensor, and if the substance decays, the bottle is smashed and the cat dies. But because of the rules of quantum mechanics, the cat is both alive and dead until the situation is observed, at which point the situation resolves itself.

Now, the issue here, is that it never works in practice, as scientists have tried, but it always just leads to one cat in one state.

Because really, after all, the cat’s observing itself…