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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I was hoping this would be posted. ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude... she went through both slits at the same time!

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

After being observed? Eeeeeewww...

EDIT: Love your Catch-22 username.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, it's good to finally have someone

observe it

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

He's hoping for an entanglement, but his girlfriend is running an interference pattern.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

So the unobserved quantum states observe the observer? Every one of them, all the time? I KNEW I wasn't crazy!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ok this made me laugh out loud. Good job.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can 2 observers simultaneously see different things?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I believe the measuring apparatus "sees" the outcome and causes the collapse of the wave function. Then the results would look the same to 2 human observers. Apparently there's some debate amongst physicists on what constitutes an "observer".

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If there's anything to see the quantum state has collapsed. The universe is the observer, an emitted photon is an example of an event that will be observed

That is why only tiny things and things near absolute zero exhibit quantum effects

This comment might be simplified too far to be close enough to accurate. I don't know the complex explanation, I'm not skilled in the right sorts of maths