>they use Schrödinger's cat to explain something
Things you hate in anime
Cooper Peterson
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Evan Richardson
Is it true that Schrodinger's cat is a message about the absurdity of quantum mechanics and an indication that it can't be true?
Isaiah Miller
yeah
John Hughes
Does the cat count as an observer?
Jeremiah Morales
I take it you really hate Steins gate
Carter Ward
No, it pokes holes at the interpretations and consequences of quantum superposition.The universe exists whether we quantify it or not, even if we do so imperfectly. That is what thought experiments do, they cause things to be reconsidered, yielding a more accurate and useful model.
David Garcia
The only anime I saw that did that was Musaigen Phantom World and it had jackshit to do with the actual Schrödinger’s Cat experiment other than the episode being about cats.
Noah Williams
I still don't understand the thought experiment.
Leo Baker
unfortunately it's actually a message about the absurd misconceptions about quantum mechanics that has ended up cited as an example in support of exactly the misunderstandings it's pointing out. Schrodinger was a fundamental part of developing quantum theory and it's a very well supported model for how the universe works at the smallest scales.
The idea behind it was to point out the "observer-lead" concept of quantum theory wasn't really giving us an idea of what was going on, because if observers were the driving force behind what happens and what's just probability (an idea that had been popularized) something absurd like a cat both alive and dead would come out of it
Levi Myers
Has this thought experiment yielded any fruit to do that?
Colton Turner
Name one show that does this.
Xavier Peterson
Higurashi
Nicholas Roberts
But I thought observers were an important part of quantum mechanics still
Lucas Gutierrez
Bunnygirl Senpai
Robert Butler
Hellsing
Alexander Sullivan
>my body moved on its own
>it can't be helped
But especially:
>people in a relationship acting extremely uncharacteristically shy/blushing/embarrassed with their significant other as if they haven't already been fucking
"I plowed you 3 times every night this month, but you holding my hand has me blushing and saying 'B-B-Baka'"
William Smith
Do you know the trolley problem?
Jose Hughes
Don't you mean Umineko?
Jeremiah Hernandez
Quantum mechanics is so difficult to wrap my brain around it sounds like it's completely made up.
Jeremiah Reyes
they are, but they're not necessarily the driving force behind "wave function collapse" (what you call when an event goes from being just a probability i.e. the cat is 50% dead 50% alive to a recorded event with a clear outcome i.e. the cat is dead, we checked) basically it's not like the cat is both alive and dead until someone checks, there are still other factors present that determine this.
Aiden Clark
>setting with Christianity lore
>the forces of hell are very real, super strong, capable, and everywhere
>they reference heaven, so it isnt just a case of "only hell exists"
>angles/god are nowhere to be seen
>the "good" side is represented by some slut in a nun fetish costume preaching
Jeremiah Ortiz
>when they don't mention the title
Daniel Hall
Endless fanservice cockteasing with no delivery of the goods in the end.
Jack Gray
It opened the search for better interpretations. Wiki lists some of them :en.wikipedia.org
it's an ongoing effort
Colton Adams
Berserk?
Mason Cox
Nah. All it tells us is there's no sense in trying to apply the logic of quantum mechanics on macroscopic objects such as cats, because the things that QM predicts can't be observed in the macro world.
Logan Barnes
they both do
Joshua Hall
>just use this basic math formula
>thanks you're so smart
Learn something about science or read a fucking book you shitty writers.
Levi James
>heaven
>in Berserk
Ryan Morris
overly complicated german names
Jackson Gonzalez
Basically:
The world beyond the atomic level is the end of classical physics and beginning of quantum mechanics.
In quantum mechanics, particles are no longer particles and they don't have any real structure. Instead, they are all just different forces with varying mass, charge, angular momentum, spin, energy state, and so on
Observing quantum particles is outright impossible because of the Observer Effect.
In order to observe anything, it has to react and reflect light. If you observe a quantum particle, the information that would reflect back would be the moment that the data was interfered by the presense of photon. Hence, the Uncertainty Principle.
What's more is that quantum particles have a property called Wave-particle duality wherein, they are capable of acting like either a particle or a wave but not bothat the same time. This level of absurd duality does not exist in classical mechanics but is responsible for shit like Quantum Tunneling that allows for atoms to fuse together and cause radiation.
Schrodinger created theSchrodinger's Equation after a student asked him that if quantum particles also act like a wave, then what is the formula for it.
The cat was made by Schrodinger as a way of showcasing to his peers how absurd the quantum world is. Bear in mind that he, Einstein, Bor, Pauli, etc, literally started the quantum field so they too do not fully understand it.
He spent a few days to make it and got a Nobel
In fact, to this day, we do not know what quantum mechanics is.
We just know what it does.
Bohrs and Einsten even had a quarel about it wherein Bors argue that the quantum world is completely unpredictable whereas Einstein believe that is - we just don't know the rules.
They took that quarrel to their graves and their argument was shoved under the carpet by scientists who coined the phrase "Shut up and Calculate"
Iirc, it took 50 years before it was presented back again and people found out that Bohrs was right
Dominic Phillips
Maybe
Dylan Baker
While it was initially conceived as a way to demonstrate absurdity of Copenhagen QM, these days it more accepted as a way to illustrate that quantum-state changes can have observable, macroscopic effects.
This change in meaning happened because Copenhagen is the only good remaining interpretation. anything that relies on local idden variables can easily be disproven by using Bell's theorem. Pilot Wave Theory is absurd and unprovable and Many-Worlds is a punchline.
That said, the Schrödinger Equation is a postulate.
Christian Nguyen
UMI DA
Carson Rogers
>Akashic records
Lincoln Thompson
Most people don't understand anything about math beyond the basic arithmetic operations, so that's true to life.
Lincoln Peterson
>I just want a normal life
Kevin Murphy
I don't either, but I still remember a ton of literature, history, and science trivia that I haven't learned since school that could be part of their homework instead. Unless elevens only get math homework.