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[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

I approve of this meme template.

It's cute đŸ„°

[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Thing is that Schrödinger would never put a cat in a box to test his thought experiment because Schrödinger knows that macroscopic objects don't really adhere to quantum mechanics principles because of decoherence.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

He only proposed the cat thing to show how ridiculous it is to apply quantum mechanics to macroscopic objects. Unfortunately the sarcasm was missed and it became the standard example of quantum mechanics.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Rather, it became the standard example of every event that has 2 outcomes, regardless of quantum mechanics is even applicable or not. It was a complete failure.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

He “placed” uranium in that mind box

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Which was the more important point.

If the microscopic particle subject to superposition was the catalyst for the cat's death, then too isn't the cat's fate in both realities?

Of course he was being intentionally absurd

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Do you want collapsing wave functions? Because cats how you get collapsing wave functions.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Room temperature is another great way to get decoherence

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's a ~~nice~~ box.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Anice box, with a hot rock.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

"So you say I go in the box, and then I am immortal in there, until you look in? Well just don't look in then you asshole! Just let me be, let me rest. I will bring a screwdriver and hinges with me and close that shit from the inside!"

this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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