Yeah, the kettle’s just sitting there in a fuzzy state, humming every possible note at once, until a fiddler’s ear comes along and does the wave‑function collapse. But if the fiddler can’t tell the difference between the branches, are we really listening or just watching the universe play a guessing game? Still, it’s a neat way to explain why a dented kettle sounds better than a new one—quantum mechanics or poor acoustics, who’s to say?