Science of Humor: Schrodinger's Cat

[blindsk8r490]

Similarly, I didn't know if this video would be good, or suck. Upon observation, it sucks.

[SecretAgentCholo]

aperture science logo on the geiger meter

[69MrUsername69]

cant you just listen for the cyanide container to break?

[RainbowManification]

@69MrUsername69 its a thick lead box you wouldn't hear it.

[Quintinia]

I could barely listen to what he was saying because his excessive head and facial movement was so distracting.

[ArsonistInUrFirewall]

Ahh wtf he can't pronounce Schrödinger correctly!!

[Unicron2012]

Quite clever adapting the Schrodinger's cat to humor. The punchline travels back in time making the entire joke either funny or not. So if you want to experience time travel, tell a joke. A joke that starts out really good, making people believe "oh this is gonna be a good". Then surprise them with a totally dumb punchline, and you've successfully changed the past. The beginning of the joke that was really good is now totally dumb.

[yungjesse]

My physics teacher would LOL at the radioactive cat joke.

[lhtd]

it is amazing how shameless you seem in to this video...

[f00tballfever]

lool great acting

[mooseasaurusrex]

I only came here for the nachos.

[foroparapente]

Overacting is so annoying I didn't watch over a minute...

[TheSteveMD]

Before this clip ended it was in a total state of unfuniness, so I disprove your point sir.

[JaKeTaNzz]

@TheSteveMD Thats only because it was in a state of observation....

[flyabusa]

"The Aristocrats" joke is an an interesting exception to the quantum-physics-as-a-punchline mechanism as it punchline and setup are quite reversed in that particular joke.

[Fuckinthisshitup]

so your gay and not gay at the same time hmmm makes sense!

[psford1]

"Green eggs AND ham!? Implausible. New York jewocracy, tellin the country man how to eat his own breakfast!"

HAHAHAHA!!!! I know it has nothing to do with this video, but its a quote that this vid reminded me of!

[vmorgun]

Just look in the box. Solved. No, seriously I don't get it - that's nothing to be ashamed about right? Are they saying it's both because it can't be documented?

[Scwirul]

This guy is an idiot... I came to this conclusion before 15 seconds.

[dozza92]

Please stop moving your head so much!!!!!1!!!

[ciavarella1292]

I like the joke :P

[tractor255]

I get the science part... Humour bypass?

[KingUniverso]

I think Schrodinger's cat is dead, because nobody said anything about putting oxygen in the box, and I'm not one to assume

[psford1]

@KingUniverso You - Are - Amazing. 1000 thumbs up!

[gamesbok]

Paul Gaugain walks into a bar, and sees his friend van Gogh sitting in a corner. He calls out, 'Oi Vincent, do you want a beer?'. van Gogh calls back, 'No thanks, I've got one 'ear'.

[simlishcroft]

why do you risk killing cats? why???

[AnnekeEnglish]

@simlishcroft - dear friend, this was a THOUGHT experiment.

[Oesquartejador]

Schrodinger is anoying... he didn't need to use a cat or a box or the poison... he could just say that without observing he couldnt say if something that have an equal probability to happen or not, had happen or not

[2Bitter2bSweet]

@Oesquartejador if you lived in a time where quantum physics was not even a possibility would you believe it if someone walked up to you and told something so absurd without proof.

[MathUhhhSaurus]

¡Imposible!

[1RadicalOne]

This mashing of quantum physics was almost as tenuous as those who use it to justify "new age" crap like Chopra does...

[slayerdog4]

i think i can sum this up. the cat is neither dead nor alive....because no one opened the box? SHOULD WE OPEN IT, I DONT KNOW

[FooootballFreak]

its EIGTHER dead or alive lol. So if i dont know if i stopped the tv at home, i will say the tv is on/off? :S LOL

[Mncdk]

The idea of superpositions is that both states are equally likely to exist/have occurred.

So the TV being on or off doesn't really work.

[pahulpsg]

fantabulus

[EngineerGuy2]

Very creative. I suppose we could use the GM counter output to trigger a relay that energizes a solenoid so that its plunger strikes the cyanide capsule. What next?

[smariot]

18 half lives... thats actually pretty good.

[ThatKidKnows]

Scientificly not...

18>9>4.5>2.25>1.125>0.5625>0.2­8125>0.140625>0.0703125....

It will never get to the whole number zero lol

[rebeccaschooten]

stolen from watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory...

[CollateralSandwich]

@rebeccaschooten

Exactly. He must have watched the Big Bang Theory and then gone back in time three years to make this video.

Good work, Sherlock!

[unconteur]

This is pure genius. LOL

[Smackerlacker1]

But wait! Is the cat not capable of "observing"?

[bjam89]

what if the cat knocks over the cyanide, also if it is both alive and dead it means he is a zombie cat, who the hades open a box witha zombie cat?

[mckook]

I watched this, but I wasn't here, not at this moment. If you log in or not to Facebook, I am there although not yet.

[Masterwid]

4 minutes of my life... wasted... nooooooooooooooo

[nickelandimed]

is this basically a way to explain "suspense?"

[nickelandimed]

where does it exist as both dead and alive? (since in reality, it can only be one or the other) in our heads? in the box? theoretically? in our explanation of the possible outcome?

[Rancorboi]

well in reality its either one or the other, but according to quantum theory, it could technically be both.

[DoubleBasschick2]

Lol wow, i'm doing a project on Schrodinger and i just decided to look this up. it took me so long to under stand it but this vid did it =D. so everything is in more that one state until it is observed. the cat is dead and alive until it is observed. thats what a lot of these vids are leaving out.

[TheWeepingCritic]

PLease do us all a favor and swallow the poison

[ministryofsound2008]

u should get in the box. that would be funny

[Aleisdee]

stop shaking your head to cover your bad acting.

[happyking9]

stop ripping on people to hide your stupidity

[whiterabit998]

wow that whole punch line dilemma explained it pretty good.

you dont know the weather the joke is funny until you observe the outcome

[txikilin]

Is it necessary to open the mouth so much to speak in english??

[Douglas1102]

Schrodinger's did not use his "cat experiment" to show the cat could be considered "alive and dead"... it was the opposite.

[blacknekokun]

and what pray tell is the opposite?

wikipedia didn't elaborate o.o

he didn't really coin the idea of putting cats in boxes with radioactive stuffs... he only used the idea to illustrate a concept...

Schrödinger wanted to explain with example how quantum superposition is just weird in nature by applying it to the cat

this weird concept can also be applied to social dynamics and decision making.

[Douglas1102]

Actually I'm pretty sure Wikipedia does elaborate on it... if not... I'm sure other pages do.

He used the cat to show how absurd the idea is that something could be considered both alive and dead which is what some people took as a conclusion to his former experiments.

However I'm not a psysicist... so please check.

[blacknekokun]

nah , that's basically it.. he just 'dumbed' down the absurdity of the whole superposition thing =)

the guy in this video kinda used it nicely xD

although jokes sometimes are just dead even if the punchline is unobserved or unheard =P

not really a physicist either... some quantum principles are more of a hobby.

[kimflie]

If the cat didn't move it would eventually starve to death, so if the box was to be closed, the cat is(scientificly speaking) already dead once you close is. The chances are 1\1

[aimusleh]

ZOMG lmfao.

[kissmybrass1932]

that was great! love it.

especially how you make a connection to the whole joke thing being in a state of funniess and unfunniness. lol

[D4athPanda]

This is why jocks shouldn't become scientists.

[stevnev88]

wouldn't the cat collapse the wave function?

[bradkey98765]

naa because it's only a thought experiment to in a sense it is a proto type if someone was to try out the experiment he would most probably tie the cat down or separate the cat from the radiative material, Geiger counter, hammer, cyanide, and the mechanical device for dropping the hammer using a sheet of metal or whatever with an air vent to the cat will die if the cyanide is released... all though this experiment shouldn't be done it is just to prove a point...

[blacknekokun]

no to mention the cat dying by asphyxiating rendering the experiment moot... unless supplying the cat with constant oxigen.

but it does serve to illustrate the point which is what Schrödinger intended... not for people to go putting cats in boxes xD

[mirrorcleworld]

That guy's eyebrows are craaaazy.

[tediouse]

on the rt hand side are 2 thumbs one up one down

due to the half life ,i think the gag is both good and bad.

[tediouse]

this is the vey kind of thing to put you off science/also this is american humour is it not!

oh year ,i live in england.

[MrDave73]

Was that meant to be funny? What was funny about this video? anyway... Schrodinger's cat is Erwin Schrodinger's parodox he saw in Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The problem with Schrodinger's cat is...The cat itself. Do you think the cat could collapse the wave function of whats in the box. I tend to think yes. So there is no paradox. Some say it's still possible to have this paradox. Even with the collapse occurring in the box. This is not some way of saying "We don't know"

[Retsam19]

I suppose the cats existence doesn't rly matter, if we adjust the experiment say so that if decay takes place it triggers a nuclear warhead in the box, then before we open the box will the warhead go off or not? because who will collapse the wave function if the box is unopened?

[blacknekokun]

Schrödinger city? xD

i think the blast escaping the box would tell us, albeit for a brief fraction of a second, that decay took place xD

[Retsam19]

lol

[ChristmasRights]

Isn't this just another scientific principle to help them avoid saying those three dreaded words: "We Don't Know"

When the cat is in the box, it is still only one of the two. Since there is no way prove one or the other (bar observing), it makes no sense to say it is both. It makes more sense to say it is either, and use the scientist worst nightmare "We Don't know".

I haven't observed my heart, yet can i say it's both green and yellow?

[cr7kpor]

You idiot. I see that you dont know shit about this. Where is your evidence? Did you study this and prove?? Your a moron, just bcuz ur mind cant handle it dont just say dumb shit.

[duffelear]

have you ever heard abouth the teory of hugh everett

if you haven't just checkt it out perhaps you will change your opinion

if you already knew it you clearly didn't got the point

[blacknekokun]

yeah, name calling doesn't make one the smarter of the two...

the principle behind the cat is to illustrate how superposition is actually absurd, not to prove that both states actually exist.

Schrodinger didn't have tangible evidence either, he referred to the cat thing as a "ridiculous case" and coined to prevent just accepting blurred concepts of reality.

quantum mechanics can be a headache, Schrodinger's thing is not really hard to grasp...

ChristmasRights.. you kinda had it right =)

[GerhardFourie]

my lawd who gave this guy more than 0 stars

[PropellerBusted]

What's wrong with that asshole's face?

STOP OVER ACTING!

[iL0VEjohnnyramone]

lol hot scientist!! ^-^

[dragonfireg]

LOL best vid ever post more like this nd cud we see the punch ines its just annoying otherwise because i hate a half joke

[salvo711]

WANTED - Schrodinger's Cat

DEAD AND ALIVE

Last seen when box was closed.

[josselyn17]

naive ned is so cute!

[comfortable1989]

I never yawned so long in my life...>_>

[fucktheflaggers]

XD that was brilliant.

[LugiaTheGreatBeast]

if i know the cat is dead but alive in the same time O_O

[Zhafirin]

That makes perfect sense!

[fuwazzy13]

ok...

[betheturtle]

yay dolly zoom!

[donny0man]

I think i just learned something

[albafreak89]

this is awesome I love it =)

[1212818181815]

That was funny

[amiablesnowman]

its absolutely cringe-worthy which is why it made me laugh. its so bad its funny. well done

[link12321]

schrodinger's cat is a matter of fact versus the philosophy of perception. great take on it bro, 4/5

[LANKEYUK]

i dont think this is funny

[coekyelmo]

You had me laughing out loud.

Thanks for making this. That was funny.

[jsreed5]

The problem I find with this thought experiment is that the theory states is that we cannot be sure of the state os something until we measure it. It seems to me that saying all states exist simultaneously is just an assumption. I know that we cannot measure something without interfering with it, but if I open a box to see whether the cat is alive or dead, and the cat was alive before I opened the box, just looking at it won't kill the cat.

Welcome to quamtum physics.

[maleysnemesis]

I wonder if the cat counts as an observer.  Prob. not.

[elementsofstars]

Same goes for orgasms .

[thejewsandwich]

how so?

[degetloo]

Be yourself !that enough for your career.

[CrazyNoShoes]

The host annoyed me, his head bobbed too much and he talks funny, he's trying too much it seems, and it really only results in me wanting to punch him.

[dsorr]

enlightening and funny, well done.

[GauchoLibre]

i just stopped the vid once he stops talkinga bout the actual concept and went into the "joke" idea... cuz well, its a joke...

[madmaxmaths]

loved the vid

[Hitokiriilh]

I'm going to shoot the next idiot who thinks a superposition of probabilities means something is simultaneously in both states. It simply means if you measure it you have a probability of finding it in one of the states.

That aside, hilarious video! 5 stars :)

[fidocancan]

that confuses me... if you have measured it, then you know it, there is no probability; if you haven't measured it yet, and are supposing a probability, eg the probability of the cat being alive is 0.2 or whatever, then you are reducing schroddingers paradox to something very trivial indeed... could you explain please?... without the use of a gun please

[Hitokiriilh]

Not really sure how that reduces the paradox to anything trivial. It's only a paradox when people try to say "the cat is in both states at once before you measure it." It's sorta like saying "if you toss a marble in an icecube tray, the marble is in all the compartments at once before you measure it." There's nothing more special about quantum than there is about probabalistic processes really.

[fidocancan]

what about the wave and particle duality business...? i thought there was a simple explanation for that too, but then i saw this vid (can't find it now) which suggested light behaves differently depending on how you observe them...

[Hitokiriilh]

The explanation typically goes as: "Particles (and light) propagate as waves and exchange energy and momentum as particles." It's not like particles are ACTUALLY waves (although it's a useful fiction to use when solving problems) but the probability of measuring it somewhere is given by a wave.

[Hitokiriilh]

Even classically, though, light travels as waves (electricity and magnetism tells us that). In quantum, it simply says light exchanges energy in discrete bits, which some take to say "hey, we can treat light as a particle when it interacts with stuff." That pretty much sums it up.

[JasonEppink]

Thanks for the REAL science lesson.

On a similar note, I love that Schrodinger's thought experiment was originally an attempt to show how ridiculous he thought quantum mechanics was, but today it's sort of the poster child for explaining fundamental quantum theory to the average Joe.

[Lykes311]

im not sure how i feel about that...

[richard833]

Good job :D

[darkdecay]

If only I understood I word that little science.. thingy was attempting to say to me?