Something is in the box. It may be air. It may be a cat. The cat may be living, or the cat may be dead. But one thing is for sure, and that is that nobody makes a box for no reason. So presumably, the box is built around something, or something has been put inside of the box. There are a number of reasons why one should not open a box, but the primary one is; it could have bats. Even though the probability is extremely low. FACT: less than 0.0001% of boxes contain bats, it’s science. There is still that potential quality that something harmful could exist inside. It could harness a booby-trap. There could be living monkeys in it, or, if the box has no holes in it, there could just be …monkeys. But one thing is for sure and it is undeniably true: there is a box.
Whether or not you decide to open it is completely up to you; but, be aware! If you open the box, there is no ‘un-opening’ it.
That is not to say that the box cannot be closed again. As a matter of fact, the box can be closed, locked, sealed up with cement and dumped into Lake Mendota, but there is no reversing your knowledge of the contents of the box. The box can be demolished by a wrecking ball, tossed off a building and shattered on the ground, pulverized by an atom smasher, burned through with lasers, and squeezed into an infinitesimal volume in a supermassive black hole. Also, you can sit on it.
The real question is, when you are given the box and told EXPRESSLY not to open it, by the President of the World, what will you do with it? Most authorities will just saunter around the corner for a glass of lemonade, pretending not to watch you. And if you still have not opened it upon their return, with no porta-pot in eyesight they may rush off with a bursting bladder, leaving you with the box and your own curiosity. They want to be able to run back around the corner, jabbing fingers and screaming, “YOU messed up our test results.” “You are the cause of all the inconsistencies in our knowledge of the almighty BOX!”
You may justly say, “It’s not my fault!” or, “YOU would have done the same exact thing. And to be brutally frank, they would have done the exact same thing in your shoes. And why shouldn’t it be your shoes anyway?
Would you open it? Would you ruin the entire scientific process, eons of endless calculations, conjunctions, conglomerations and constant conflict, for a chance just to satisfy your own curiosity?
Schrödinger’s cat may be in the box, the four riders of the apocalypse, or maybe your wildest dreams and fantasies. Have you Achilles’ heart, or his heel? Are you a human, or a mouse? Something is in the box!