The genius of this experiment and why people have thought about it so long and still get excited is because it links an act, an event on the atomic scale; one atom disintegrating or not, to something everybody can understand…the cat being dead or alive.
The Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox introduces a subjective element of reality through a scientific scope in the way that certain quantum elements shift based off of the act of observation.
Wouldn’t the cat suffocate in that little box long before the hour was up? 😀