What If We Put Schrödinger's Cat on Mars? — The Edge of the Actual
Everyone argues about whether Schrödinger's box could really be built. But a box was never the only way to isolate a cat — distance is a box whose walls are the speed of light. So tonight we run the experiment properly: the cat goes to Mars, and for fifteen minutes a sphere of maybe the size of the inner solar system expands toward you — while physicists fight over whether it's a sphere of being or of ignorance, a fight whose referee, in the end, is the maximum possible size of a quantum computer. And when the instruments go structurally blind, philosophy answers with one small word: 'actual'…
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