Did the box have a beginning or do it and it's contents go back infinitely in time?
Perhaps, but that would be the topic for another post.
Well that's what I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around. If the matter inside of the box was created, it violates the law of conservation of mass, meaning the conditions that were present during the creation of the contents of the box are different from what they are currently, making them impossible to observe and thus impossible to prove or disprove. On the other hand, if the contents of the box always existed, then why? Why would contents exist in the box? And if the insides of the box are part of an eternal continuum in time that goes back infinitely, surely they must have reached a state of equilibrium by now. What about the laws governing entropy of matter?
I have a hard time with Schrodigers uncertainty as well. Makes my thoughts chase one another in a circle. But there are other things to spend mental energy on, this is like an old scar you pick at now and then.
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