Originally Posted by
cudak888
OP has Grant Petersen in an empty box, therefore this entire thread is a troll.
Discuss.
-Kurt
Originally Posted by
Salamandrine
If we do not open the box, it is impossible to know whether or not Grant Petersen is in the box.
This seems to be sort of a Schrödinger problem. Is he in the box or, as many in this thread opine, is he completely outside of the box? As Schrödinger would suggest, we cannot know if he is in the box or outside of the box until we look. If he is both inside and outside until we look, then what is there to open? It is not about the opening, it is about the looking.
As an aside, he cannot be in an empty box, for if he is in the box then it is not empty. This is off-topic and along the lines of pre-heating an oven, which cannot be done.