It’s probably (hopefully) not a majority, but a disturbing number of people really do believe it works like that. I’ve once had someone, whose intelligence I used to respect, calmly explain to me that telekinesis is possible because “QM proves that the mind can influence matter”.
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Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 days agoPeople keep explaining like it’s a huge surprise.
I think I am technically a physicist so this could be a case of xkcd 2501 but it seems obvious enough.
Surely nobody actually believes that is how it works. I think I understood it that way and was mind blown for like 5min before being sceptical and asking for clarification and still being mind blown by how it was actually meant. I was a child when that happened.
All the adults I’ve spoken to about it learned about it school and understood straight away. That is of course completely biased though.
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Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I wouldn’t be so sure. There’s a disturbingly high amount of people (including adults) out there who take Schrödinger’s cat literally.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 days ago
A lot of people do believe it unfortunately.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I may not have been paying attention in school. Once adult, I read about it but wondered what it means “when observed”. Couldn’t find anywherw that explained it clearly. Figured it was surely related to a physical process necessary to get signals, but I couldn’t know what exactly. Now, I know.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
There are entire new age movements based on the misunderstanding of quantum mechanics.
Off the top of my head: What the Bleep do we Know? And The Secret are two that come to mind.