VoterFrog

@VoterFrog@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, famously, they’re waves and particles. The double slit which way experiment will only set off the detector in one slit, as if it was a particle. Yet, without a detector it will interfere with itself as if it were a wave that passed through both slits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. But the thing that’s interesting about the double slit experiment though is that it works on only a single photon. It’s as if all the traffic was created by a single car. So classically you might not think that the single car should care if the freight truck is heading down a different lane than the car but I’m QM it does, because the car is in a superposition of occupying several lanes.

  I’m probably driving the analogy straight into the ground of course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you trying to see exactly? There’s this video done with polarizers: youtu.be/unCXuRXpEhs Of course, it’s not an instant on/off but having an instant on/off doesn’t really change anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just a Planck bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the uncertainty in the measurement is related to the wavelength of a photon used to make the measurement and smaller wavelengths (higher frequencies) are more energetic.

  PBS Spacetime has an excellent video on this very subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just a Planck bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to accurately measure the location of something requires energy. The more precise the measurement, the more energy is required. The amount of energy required get the precision below the Planck length would literally create a black hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just a Planck bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not American enough. I need it in football fields.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Multiverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah but here’s the real staggering part. It should be far easier for universes to form locally conscious beings than it is to form all the pieces necessary to naturally evolve conscious beings. These would mostly be very short-lived arrangements of energy with no hope of surviving but certain arrangements would even have false memories, making them believe that they have existed far longer than they actually have.

  They may even have false memories of living on earth.

  They may even have false memories of your exact life.

  And they would be, by far, more common than any form of actual sustainable life. It is vastly more likely that you have experienced this post as a false memory created inside one of these short-lived consciousnesses than for any of this to be real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re in a simulation, it’s probably a massive universe-spanning one. We’re just a blip, both within the scale of the space of the universe and within the history of time of the universe. In that case, we’re not important enough for a simulation creator to even care to adjust our capabilities at all. They’re not watching us. We’re not the point of the simulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded, though I would advise getting the DLC after completing the main game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is I don’t think it has anything to offer to bring in people from outside the genre. Some people really enjoy it but you kinda have to already be into that kind of thing (DOTA).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, the classics.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The time since the release of that song is longer than 1985 was to it (2004).