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Schrodinger's Precious

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨PugJesus@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • neatchee@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nasty hobitses did not mention radioactive particle decay or poison vile! Cat is just dead dead dead!! Suffocated, starved, sensory deprived cat!

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    • MycelialMass@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      *vial

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      • neatchee@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        poison is vile, looking cats is vile, I see absolutely no problem here >.>

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait… So the radioactive material is keeping the cat alive? 🤔

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      • neatchee@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        no, the vile of poison and radioactive particle connected to a device that breaks the vile when it detects the particle’s decay is what makes the cat’s state probabilistic. Otherwise it’s just a cat in a box

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        it’s meant to keep schroedinger away

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  • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s really in the box are the 12 year old girls Schroedinger used to rape

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    • SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What

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      • pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        From Forbes:

        Quoting directly from Schrödinger’s diaries, Moore revealed that the physicist justified his attraction to girls by considering that, being a genius (which he believed no woman ever could be), he was naturally entitled. “It seems to be the usual thing that men of strong, genuine intellectuality are immensely attracted only by women who, forming the very beginning of the intellectual series, are as nearly connected to the preferred springs of nature as they themselves. Nothing intermediate will do, since no woman will ever approach nearer to genius by intellectual education than some unintellectuals do by birth so to speak.”

        TIL. Ugh.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He in the Trump-Einstein-Files?

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      • white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes and no

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A box without a lid, no way to check on the cat, and no air holes. That cat is dead. It was always going to die.

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    • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Going to, but there was no given time frame. So you don’t know if it is dead, yet

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      • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        By the time you ask the question, you are unquestionably sick, sadistic, & cruel because no one lives long enough to be otherwise.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Depends on the size of the box and how long it’s been

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are you also dead because you’re guaranteed to die eventually? It’s not an experiment of the eventual outcome but the observation of the outcome. While you’re observing the cat it has to be alive or dead, it can’t be both. But when you stop observing the certainty disappears and the cat is no longer dead or alive but both at the game time.

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  • jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    just shake the box up a bit. you’ll soon know if the cat inside is alive or dead!?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    is the cat a qualifed observer>

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, it’s a conscientious objector

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        am i a qualified observer?

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Shouldn’t they both be right

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    • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Luckily, Bilbo remembered to add “Answer fully”

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    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Alive and death at the same time. It’s more like asking if the coin is heads or tails when the coin is still spinning.

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    • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not if they are both wrong.

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    • Bunitonito@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, the cat is one or the other. Radioactive half-life is the point at which there is a 50/50 chance that any single isotope had decayed, and we usually work around that in classical systems by using large sample sizes (a pile of isotopes, it’s easy to see that half of it would have decayed). But for one single isotope we aren’t observing (or the cat), we need to look at it in terms of probabilities until we observe it

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  • Bunitonito@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    … It’d be a lot easier to explain this is Schroedinger had a whole pile of boxes with cats in them

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      oh god you just made me write the stupidest nerdiest song about schroedinger in about half a second and the chorus goes “and he’s got boxes and boxes and boxes of cats/ yeah he’s got boxes and boxes and boxes of cats” i feel so ashamed

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      • Bunitonito@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        ‘and half of them are dead / but what about THIS ONE? / nobody knows, nobody knowwwws’

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  • Slovene85@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The correct answer is yes.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      wrong again!

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      • Slovene85@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠)⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Eventually dead, from multiple potential causes. Especially with no lid.

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  • sepi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bro the cat is dying

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Aren’t we all?

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