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any layperson interested in "quantum mechanics" is schizophrenic
| metaphysics is fallow | 05/13/25 |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 4:31 PM Author: metaphysics is fallow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724562&forum_id=2],#48927678) |
Date: May 13th, 2025 4:33 PM Author: ricky's startup I've been self-teaching physics for the last year and a half or so and I finally ragequit at quantum mechanics
It's just fucking made up nonsense it's literally not even real they just made some stuff up that doesn't even exist in reality because it fits some math equations |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 4:34 PM Author: metaphysics is fallow yeah and then you get to read all kinds of kooky mysticism into the uncertainty it's truly 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724562&forum_id=2],#48927689) |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 4:42 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK If you want to see an easy illustration of how the math fails us, this is an entertaining video. The dood has never heard of Planck units, and at the end of the video he asks physicists to tell him if his math reflects reality.
https://youtu.be/u7Z9UnWOJNY?si=M3lT4q1T4G-QjI_U |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 4:39 PM Author: we have such sights to show you tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724562&forum_id=2],#48927696) |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 4:40 PM Author: ""'"""' ChatGPT's take on it:
Is quantum mechanics real? Or is it some made up nonsense?
ChatGPT said: Quantum mechanics is absolutely real—it’s one of the most experimentally confirmed theories in science. It’s not made-up or speculative; it’s the foundation of technologies you use every day, like lasers, GPS, semiconductors, MRI machines, and the chip in your phone.
That said, it feels weird because it describes a world (atoms, particles, probabilities) that doesn’t behave like our everyday experience. But experiments—over and over—match its predictions with insane precision, often better than one part in a billion.
So while it sounds strange, it’s not nonsense—it’s just how reality works at the smallest scales.
You said: Is it true that based on quantum mechanics, the same person can be in two places at once?
ChatGPT said: Yes—but with a big caveat.
In quantum mechanics, particles like electrons or photons can exist in a superposition—a state where they’re effectively in multiple places (or states) at once until measured. This is experimentally verified at small scales.
However, for macroscopic objects like people, superposition breaks down. The phenomenon called decoherence causes quantum effects to vanish rapidly when interacting with the environment (light, air, etc.). So while in theory, a person could be in two places at once, in practice it doesn’t happen—we're too big, warm, and entangled with the world.
So: true in principle, but not in real-life experience.
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Date: May 13th, 2025 4:47 PM Author: ricky's startup Superposition is BS imo it's just describing a statistical distribution of the possibilities of the position/state of something when you actually measure it
Nothing is ever actually in "multiple places at once" we just don't know where it is until it's measured and then we know for sure |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 5:05 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK cr, "observation" and "measurement" are just other ways of saying "sampling." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724562&forum_id=2],#48927765) |