schrodinger's cat
if you cant see it, did it really happen?
Actually, from my understanding of the schrodinger's cat Gedankenexperiment, if you can't see whether it has happened or not then
it simultaneously BOTH did and didn't happen until it has been observed by someone.
If the state of possible collision is never observed by anyone then it will remain indefinitely in this state of superposition.
If it the state of possibile collision eventually is observed then the wave function will collapse and it will either have happened or not have happened.
During the state of superposition, it will have some percentage of having happened and some other percentage of having not happened. Those percentages will be determined by the likelihood of it having happened.
Also, if i recall correctly, there is highly radioactive material in the box, so the cat will die at some point and that
is what is being determined. So the percentage of having happened versus having not happened, is of the death
of the cat, which is a sure eventuality in this experiment.
With the address collision issue, there is an eventuality as well, but for the examples to be comparable, the
address collision can not be a natural occurrence, but with an advanced bruteforcing system designed to cause
and find collisions, which would represent the radioactive material in the box.
But yes, address collision only exists when it is observed in the wild, like when a superposition ends and the
observed result is determined. Problem is that under normal circumstances, whether it is ever observed and
how to prove it is true collision (outside of random number generator errors and etc) is another issue.