Correct. Schrodinger's Cat-In-The-Box analogy doesn't state that ANYTHING could be in the box, just that the cat simultaneously exists in a state of life and death until you ascertain which it's in. It only really works as an analogy, as it relies on the idea that you can't hear the cat, see the box shaking from its movements, or smell it rotting away. Also, unlike the above, it relies on the experimenter having put the cat in the box themselves and therefore knowing it's in there.
Schrodinger was the first personto use a cat and a piece of radium to cleverly demonstrate quantum uncertainty, not the first person to point at a closed box and say "ANYTHING could be in there! WE WON'T KNOW UNTIL IT'S OPENED!". That discovery probably befell a caveman, centuries previous.
I'm not a physicist either, but I recall Niels Bohr once said "Anyone who claims that quantum theory is clear doesn't really understand it at all".
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Schrodinger was the first personto use a cat and a piece of radium to cleverly demonstrate quantum uncertainty, not the first person to point at a closed box and say "ANYTHING could be in there! WE WON'T KNOW UNTIL IT'S OPENED!". That discovery probably befell a caveman, centuries previous.
I'm not a physicist either, but I recall Niels Bohr once said "Anyone who claims that quantum theory is clear doesn't really understand it at all".