The Double Quantum Dot Feline Cousin of Schroedinger's Cat: An Experimental Testbed for a Discourse of Quantum Measurement Dichotomies

Intriguing dichotomies in quantum measurement theory involving the role of the obersever, objective reality, collapse of wavefunctions and actualization of a measurement outcome are cast into a patholigical gedanken experiment involving a single electron in a double quantum dot system coupled via a weak link.