Poll of the Day > I've been thinking...

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In physics there's the Double-slit Experiment which shows a particle can enter both slits at once and interfere with itself on the other side. Yet trying to catch it in the act will limit it to one slit.
There's the example of Schrodinger's Cat, yet there is also the concept of Quantum Immortality.
What if the only reason I have a defined state is because I'm observing myself?
Then I thought, what if I don't have a defined state? The lunatic in my head just thinks I do.

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This is why people don't want cameras in their brain 'cuz if you can observe the quantum states you become a one-track mind

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I've been thinking...

A dangerous pastime...

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Your mom's a double-slit experiment

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"you've been thinking? I warned you about thinking!"
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Metalsonic66 posted...

A dangerous pastime...

Also an incredibly unusual one for most PotDers.
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I was trying to make a subtle reference to Beauty and the Beast

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MondoMan180 posted...

Your mom's a double-slit experiment

lmao

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Science, yo

https://youtu.be/89jt7zJzkNQ?t=46

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I still say just because you don't know if the cat is alive or dead, doesn't mean it could be both.

it's alive or dead, you just don't know which.
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When you're asleep your state doesn't change

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

When you're asleep your state doesn't change

unless you are in a plane
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

I still say just because you don't know if the cat is alive or dead, doesn't mean it could be both.

it's alive or dead, you just don't know which.

No they practically proved it read Einstein's biography by Walter Isaacson. It's the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Einstein was so spooked out by the implications and famously said God does not roll the dice or something like that, and as much as he was seen as a radical innovator early in his career, he began to be seen by his fellow theoretical physicists as dogmatic and out of touch after this for denying the evidence.

I know it is crazy to think about but actually look at things like these new quantum computers that they are starting to build a small scale that has to do with quantum entanglement which pretty much proves it (i think)

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MondoMan180 posted...

No they practically proved it read Einstein's biography by Walter Isaacson. It's the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Einstein was so spooked out by the implications and famously said God does not roll the dice or something like that, and as much as he was seen as a radical innovator early in his career, he began to be seen by his fellow theoretical physicists as dogmatic and out of touch after this for denying the evidence.

I know it is crazy to think about but actually look at things like these new quantum computers that they are starting to build a small scale that has to do with quantum entanglement which pretty much proves it (i think)

I mean, not the cat but the dual nature of i guess particles. The cat is just an analogy

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