Weird science shit I will never understand.

[Gibsons]

Try out Bell's theorem.

 

[waggy]

The string theory and M theory. I can fallow it though it is kinda mind blowing..

 

[soulcougher73]

So i just tried to read the wiki on this cat thing. Head assploads. No idea what i just read. But i did find this.

 

[techs]

So if I dig up Schrodingers corpse and put him in a box he's both dead and alive?
Stand by for brain exploding....

 

[soulcougher73]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLDhMU5JvMk

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Try out Bell's theorem.

We cannot abide people like Bell in a progressive society. He's about inequality.

 

[Tweak155]

Link?

It is kinda a cheesy cartoon but makes the point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXQjRBLwsQ

 

[Apple Of Sodom]

People don't understand Schrodinger's Cat experiment because Schrodinger intended it to show that you cannot apply quantum principles to macroscopic objects. The idea is that the cat CANNOT be both dead and alive. He intended the experiment to be a reductio ad absurdum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/experiments/schrodingerscat/

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

People don't understand Schrodinger's Cat experiment because Schrodinger intended it to show that you cannot apply quantum principles to macroscopic objects. The idea is that the cat CANNOT be both dead and alive. He intended the experiment to be a reductio ad absurdum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/experiments/schrodingerscat/

No, he intended for the cat to shut up. 😀

 

[darkewaffle]

Surprised there was no mention of magnets yet lol. How the fuck do they work?

 

[Phoenix86]

Surprised there was no mention of magnets yet lol. How the fuck do they work?

Did you miss post 24?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Surprised there was no mention of magnets yet lol. How the fuck do they work?

Aliens. Has the History Channel taught you nothing?

 

[disappoint]

People don't understand Schrodinger's Cat experiment because Schrodinger intended it to show that you cannot apply quantum principles to macroscopic objects. The idea is that the cat CANNOT be both dead and alive. He intended the experiment to be a reductio ad absurdum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/experiments/schrodingerscat/

But you can apply quantum principles to quantum objects right? Well the cat's life or death depends on the quantum object in the box with him.

 

[darkewaffle]

Did you miss post 24?

I just ctrl+F'ed it 🙁

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

But you can apply quantum principles to quantum objects right? Well the cat's life or death depends on the quantum object in the box with him.

What quantum object would that be?

 

[Phoenix86]

What quantum object would that be?

I could tell you, but then it'd be different.

 

[Ruptga]

All you really need to know about QM is that everything you think you know is a lie.

Opposites can be simultaneously true, particles can affect other particles without being near them, particles are constantly materializing out of the fucking aether, and sometimes particles will teleport past other particles. Oh, and there are these things that routinely fly through the entire planet without interacting with a single atom.

QM is bizarro-land, don't even try to understand it unless you're prepared to be confused for several days, after which you may be only slightly less confused.

 

[disappoint]

What quantum object would that be?

The alpha particle emitted by the radioactive source.

 

[Ruptga]

What quantum object would that be?

The radioactive source, specifically the single atom that does or does not decay.

Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.

 

[Tweak155]

I could tell you, but then it'd be different.

Haha.