The point is only misunderstood when someone hears it, before then the point is in a super position where it’s both understood and misunderstood at the same time.
trapped in the middle with u
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HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It says something about modern physics that possibly the two most famous bits of it were named by people trying to call bollocks.
What it says, though, is too many STEM folk skimp on humanities and are just really bad at naming things.
marius@feddit.org 2 days ago
If you make a point, but no one hears it, was the point ever made?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I understood that by purposefully misunderstanding it … what are we talking about again?
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 day ago
but isn’t the quantum superposition still how we understand quantum mechanics to work? he may have coined the metaphor to criticize but if it ended up being an accurate representation of a useful concept then who cares if he intended it to be absurd?
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 21 hours ago
It’s how we understand it but it does show, or at least suggest, that we still don’t fully understand what’s going on at the quantum level.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
Ha look at that, it’s the same way I’m looking at people dropping the “c” from a German “sch”
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Because you can imagine him looking down on you from heaven it must exist in at least one possible universe, but you won’t know if you live in that universe until you die.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Only the best child groomers get into heaven:
HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yiiiikes. That quote from him is an insane way to justify being only attracted to minors.
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Best I can figure it translates to “They are naive”.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Thanks for sharing, I never heared about that.
MoonElf@hexbear.net 21 hours ago
a tragic tale, he missed his dead cat and thought science would bring it back to life but all einstein could do was give him a zombie cat. let this be a warning to us all.
TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
What’s the correct interpretation and the common misunderstanding?
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
he said that the superposition is stupid as the cat cannot be both dead and alive.
the misunderstanding is that people think that he tried to explain superposition with the cat.
knightly@pawb.social 2 days ago
Heck, I love explaining quantum physics.
Ask me questions! I can dumb it down enough that even a child can understand!
Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Do time and space realy change places if you go past the event horizon of a black hole? How does that work?
Maybe not the right field of knowledge, but i heard this recently and haven’t come along anybody able to dumb it down enoth for me to understand. So I thought I might ask anyway :-)
knightly@pawb.social 1 day ago
As far as we can figure it, basically, yeah. Wrapping your brain around the concept
So gravity gets stronger the closer you are to a black hole, but at the event horizon things get weird. The extreme curvature of spacetime forces space itself to flow toward the singularity at its center faster than the speed of light, so on the inside there’s no “other” direction to point to, even photons emitted straight “out” can’t reach the event horizon and end up moving in the same direction as everything else. So space becomes timelike, proceeding inexorably from point A to B.
Time is more complicated, because it’s really hard to visualize. If you fall into a black hole, you’ll pass through all the outward-pointing light that’s been failing to escape since the event horizon formed, which puts all the past history of the black hole below you. Meanwhile, anything that falls into the black hole in the future can be seen above as its downward-pointing photons catch up. The entire timeline of the interior evolution of the black hole is laid out in the light coming toward you from either direction, making it spacelike.
Redfox8@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Please explain entanglement and how two particles can be inexplicably connected despite being gajillions of light years apart! Bonus question, do you believe time exists?
knightly@pawb.social 1 day ago
Okay!
Entanglement is what we call any sort of quantum interaction that causes some property of two particles to become linked, like photon gun that always spits out two photons of the same polarization, or bouncing a couple of molecules together so that they spin in opposite directions. So long as nothing comes along to disrupt that state, we could measure one particle and we’d know the state of the other particle no matter where it is without having to measure it.
The “inexplicable connection” there is just information about a quantum pair, but it’s spooky because that information literally doesn’t exist until it is measured, at which point the connection is broken. A couple of intergalactic hydrogen atoms could exchange a photon across light years and become entangled for the rest of time, casually sharing some quantum secret as they coast to infinity.
Bonus answer, I think time is real but isn’t like what we imagine it to be.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Is he looking down on us or waving to us?
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
The point that the cat was to prove it was a stupid discussion but ended up being the perfect model with which to explain the concept of superposition to people who don’t understand it?