Checkmate Schrödinger

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• BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know it’s a joke but isn’t it “dead or alive until observed”?

  Hearing a meow would count as an observation.

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  • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shut up

    Spoiler

    You are of course right

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    • troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My exact thought about my exact though

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The car is a qualified observer

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  • troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My exact thought

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’tmeowback dontmeowbackdontmeowbackdontmeow

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This reminds me that puppets are a legitimate art form. THE EMOTION! XD

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fun fact: while mainstream quantum mechanics says the cat’s superposition collapses when it observes the vial of poison, many worlds theory says the cat stays in superposition, and so do you once you open the box. In fact, the entire universe is a waveform in superposition.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sometimes it’s very difficult to believe that they’re not just making it all up based on nothing while SUPER high. This is one of those times 😄

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    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s more like they’re taking an overly literal interpretation of highly abstracted and complex math. Some physicists want the universe to be mysterious and strange, but that holds them back from seeing the deeper mysteries and strangeness because they get stuck on their pet interpretation.

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  • Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tbf, one can assert that observation is an entanglement with the observed wave function without needing different universes.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If Christopher Columbus had died of a stroke before he lead his expedition to the Americas, all of modern history would have been at least a little different. Most people alive today would not exist in the same form. Our parents wouldn’t have boinked at the same time they did, the same sperm would not have fertilised those eggs, we would all be different people.

      There is some quantum probability that Columbus would have had a stroke. Not a high one, but it’s perfectly possible, through quantum tunneling if nothing else. Thus, the earth’s waveform is in superposition between that version of history and this one. You don’t have to call that a different universe, but the authors of the many worlds theory do.

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  • leagman1@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like you’re saying we’re all just energy. So the ancient masters were right!

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    • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’re all just waves of probability.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean that meow could have just been air escaping from folds in the dead cat’s skin. 🤷‍♂️

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wooo!

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Metric or imperial?

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• Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The voice acted version is even better (youtube short warning)

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  • JetpackJackson@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love that I knew who it was before I clicked. Gianni is mad talented

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• Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Schrödinger wanted to demonstrate exactly this with his though experiment: that a complex organism (like a cat) in a superposition is absurd.

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