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PugJesus@piefed.social to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days ago

Schrodinger's Precious

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  • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip
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    What’s really in the box are the 12 year old girls Schroedinger used to rape

    • SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social
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      What

      Edit: okay yep wow that’s true. Damn. Okay. Today’s lesson was not in quantum mechanics.

      • pageflight@lemmy.world
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        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.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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      He in the Trump-Einstein-Files?

      • white_nrdy@programming.dev
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        Yes and no

  • neatchee@piefed.social
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    Nasty hobitses did not mention radioactive particle decay or poison vile vial! Cat is just dead dead dead!! Suffocated, starved, sensory deprived cat!

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      *vial

      • neatchee@piefed.social
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        poison is vile, killing cats is vile, I see absolutely no problem here >.>

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      Wait… So the radioactive material or poison is meant to keep the cat alive? 🤔

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        no, the vial of poison and radioactive particle connected to a device that breaks the vial 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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          BTW, the state of the cat being probabilistic is meant to be absurd or paradoxical, since Schrodinger’s cat is supposed to be a thought experiment against quantum superposition.

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            Yup. Turns out he was super wrong though and existence is just that fucked up at the quantum level

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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          Tell that to your imaginary Gollum that claims without that stuff, the cat is dead. lol

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            … it’s a sealed box with no holes … the cat is very dead or will be very soon

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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        it’s meant to keep schroedinger away

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

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

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

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      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 same time.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    is the cat a qualifed observer>

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      No, it’s a conscientious objector

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        am i a qualified observer[9]?

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    Poor kitty

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

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      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

      • Bunitonito@lemmy.world
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        ‘and half of them are dead / but what about THIS ONE? / nobody knows, nobody knowwwws’

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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          YOU HEAR IT TOO

          oh gods. i’m going to ask my wife if it’s coming out my teeth

          edit: she says yes it’s coming out your teeth, you’re singing

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    Shouldn’t they both be right

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOP
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      Luckily, Bilbo remembered to add “Answer fully”

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      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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      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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      Not if they are both wrong.

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    The correct answer is yes.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      wrong again!

      • Slovene85@sh.itjust.works
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        (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠)⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

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

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    Bro the cat is dying

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      Aren’t we all?

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