Comment on Schrodinger

• joneskind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t give a flying fuck about the “duality of a man”. As I said, we can’t cancel the work of this POS. What we can do is letting his story die among other not so famous scientists but nonetheless more relevant even in the eyes of science. Those who deserve to be known and reminded.

  My dad liked that quote “You die twice. First when your body shuts down. Second the last time someone ever pronounces your name”

  So if you don’t mind, let’s kill that motherfucker once and for all.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s just an unrealistic expectation is alls I’m saying. The fact is, people will remember his name in 10,000 years because he is a part of history and you can’t rewrite history.

    Let’s agree to disagree aye.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Idk, I think it’s worth mentioning. I didn’t know that about him.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sure bring it to people’s attention, as I didn’t know either, but I was arguing that we can’t scrub the dude from history as that’s just a deluded expectation.

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    • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think in 10,000 years he’ll be in the books, but people won’t be making memes, and the average person won’t know anything about him.

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  • nintendiator@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sure. Which other scientist who first designed Schrödinger’s Cat experiment should I refer to by name, then?

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    • joneskind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The S. Cat experiment has always been a pun. It argues that the cat is in superposition of state, which is absurd. That was a bad dad joke from the very beginning.

      So what you’re asking is basically “how do I tell the joke without telling the joke?”

      And my answer to that is maybe you simply shouldn’t tell that joke because it’s bad.

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      • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No, it’s a thought experiment, not a pun or joke.

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  • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Curious, non native English speaker?

    Reminded is more like to make them remember. Remembered would be the word.

    Also, pronounces kinda works, but simpler would just be the word “says”, or to add a more ominous tone “utters”.

    No judgement, actually positive judgement… it’s very good English. And better than I speak any other language.

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    • joneskind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re right, I’m French

      Thank you!

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• MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Shockingly, there are in fact scientists that do great things that aren’t terrible on the side like Schrödinger or Feynman. If people properly called them out, maybe we’d have more.

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  • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Now what did Feynman do on the side?

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    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      As far as I know, he was a player if you know what I mean. Which is not as bad as being a pedophile.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, we should ensure the fame of better scientists, like Dr Wernher von Braun, who contributed to rocketry and the development of the Saturn V rocket as well as the V2 which was the first long range rocket used for military purposes–hmmm–by the na–oh no. Uh nm.

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    • joneskind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I didn’t know Dr Wernher von Braun had such importance in pop culture.

      As I wrote, there’s no point cancelling his work. I just want to stop hearing about his stupid cat once and for all. I don’t need it to get an understanding Quantum Physics. In fact, the whole thing is even more confusing for people with no background in the field.

      If Humanity can’t come up with a good quantum physics related pun, we might indeed deserve to be replaced by AIs.

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I wish the fact that the USA immediately started hiring Nazis and giving them places of honour and comfort immediately after WWII was big in pop culture. Awareness was the only reason for that comment btw, not trying to make a statement about honouring bad people who made a famous contribution to science or that all scientists have skeletons in their closets. I just think everyone should be aware that some scientists went from helping the Nazis kill scores of UK civilians to living comfortable upper middle class lives in the US.

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