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Quantum mechanics for dummies
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DrJohnZoidberg
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Makes me think we are all just simulations in a huge simcity.
AthenianOwl
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No. it's not a good thing. it implies that everything is being controlled by Supreme Being who is observing us from beyond the universe's edges. Free will = BS.
By the way love the signature!
Cool talk moderated by Brian Greene (Elegant Universe, Fabric of the Cosmos) on the particle | wave nature of the quantum world:
[video=youtube;GdqC2bVLesQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdqC2bVLesQ[/video]
[video=youtube;GdqC2bVLesQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdqC2bVLesQ[/video]
Arthur
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Speak for yourself. Interesting that you're not bothered by the obvious incongruity of your words and deeds. Do you really believe your post here is the necessary product of a random and blind collection of matter? It follows then that your opinion about anything is utterly irrelevant. It also means that your bizarre notion that free will is BS is self-refuting. Positing free will sure raises some deep philosophical questions. But denying it as you do involves you in profound contradictions.
Moosedrool
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How did you come to this conclusion?
Quantum mechanics purely states that all possible outcomes of something happens but when an observer is added that person’s individual reality is only one of the many single outcomes. This has nothing to do with a supreme being.
Makes you feel kind of weird about reality. Which is why Schrodinger’s cat is such a strange experiment. If the atom decay’s a sensor breaks the poison and the cat dies. If not, the cat lives. But you as an observer is only allowed to look at the box after the time frame. Before opening the entire cat was in superposition, dead and alive at the same time.
The cat also a conscious being however also only experience one of these outcomes and it might be different from what the observer would see. Thus effectively separating into 2 different realities.
Something interesting:
They even did the double slit experiment with entire molecules and found the same interference pattern when not measuring the things going through.
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TEXTILE GUY
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Patrick_Hockstetter
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So back to the basic question... If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make a noise?
Patrick_Hockstetter
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Maybe someone..., does not want the observer to be able to observe what happens...
Moosedrool
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Observation isn't a visual exclusive phenomenon so yeah the sound you hear also limit's the probabilities of the event. You hear the sound because just hearing is also observing.
DarthCat
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If the tree falls it still makes sound waves but there is no one to receive it
Patrick_Hockstetter
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But does an unobserved falling tree make a noise? As soon as its observed falling, then it makes a noise. Could be similar with the neuron experiment posted.