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.
It doesnt really matter whats in the box, whats important is that there is a chance for it to be in one state and a chance for it to be in another. In Schrödingers Gedankenexperiment he used a very small amount of radio activ material which could decay a single atom within a given time span. This was used as switch for a deadly gas which would either kill the cat or not depending on whether an atom decayed or not. This was constructed to be of equal chance. An address collision is not of equal chance to it not happening, but its still the same general principle I think.
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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.
Id say the collision happened even when no one noticed it. Shit already broke you just didnt realize it yet. Whoever sends coins to the address in question first will reveal the information to the other person also in control.