[Avodah] Looking for help with an analogy

[Kenneth Miller via Avodah]

R' Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer asked:

> Can anyone here please explain how chazakos (d'mei'ikara,
> d'hashta) would relate to Schroedinger's Cat?

My first knee-jerk reaction is to say that they DON'T relate. Chazakos are all about law, and what the law will *presume* the reality to have been. We found a piece of meat on the street, or we bought it and forgot where, or any of a million similar questions. We don't really know whether it is kosher or not, and to a certain extent we don't really care. What we really care about is whether halacha allows us to *presume* that it is kosher.

Schroedinger's Cat and similar ventures are attempts to establish what the *reality* is. The Cat is a thought experiment, but do not make the mistake of thinking that it is mere philosophizing. The whole point of the experiment is to establish what is really and actually happening inside the box, and the answer (that they've come up with) is that two contradictory truths (the cat is alive, the cat is dead) are both true at the same time. This is a question of physics and reality, not a question of legal presumptions.

The subject line of this thread says that you're "looking for help with an analogy". Could you tell us more about what you're working on?

Akiva Miller
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