The Paradox of Schrodinger's Cat

[DarkStar1O9]

The cat isn't alive or dead when the box is closed, the cat simply is... that's the whole point

[nickharvey7]

@DarkStar1O9 The cat is in its own reference frame relative to its own energy and mass and so is the observer. The experiment is a process over a period of time ∆E ∆t ≥ h/2π the uncertainty of the cat being dead or alive is the same uncertainty we have with any future event. Mathematically it is Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π in this theory!

[TheaDragonSpirit]

The point is you can't know if something is or isn't true unless you can see it or read it some how... and know it is true. Think you missed the point. Ha.

[ohedd]

I can't stand this guy's voice. Is he trying to sound like an old scientist?

[nickharvey7]

@ohedd I did not think of this, I sound like an old scientist!!!

[kontaktseistrup]

The experiment/paradox is false, because the cat would die simultaneously while being "alive",

But biology says you can't be both at the same time.

[nickharvey7]

@kontaktseistrup In this theory biology is right! Because the quantum wave particle function represent the flow on time itself. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w-function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event. So the cat has a potential future of being alive like us all!

[1lynk]

@kontaktseistrup u sure about that

[kontaktseistrup]

@1lynk Yeah that's why no one uses this theory without laughing or they will use it as a figurative theory.

[FooootballFreak]

i like quantum physics but this thing is just bullshit.. i mean common!? Just because the scientist doesnt know if its dead or not doesnt mean its BOTH ! Its like me saying you are alive AND dead.. cause i cant see you.

[OfficialDruggis]

@FooootballFreak This is how quantum mechanics work. If you observe a quantum process, you will destroy it. The cat IS dead and alive at the same time... until you check. that's the moment it loses it's quantum quality and becomes an either dead or alive cat. It's that simple, really. A quantum process is only a quantum process as long as it isn't observed.

[FooootballFreak]

@OfficialDruggis don't get quick here..

Remember the cat is an observer itself.

[OfficialDruggis]

@FooootballFreak True, true... But as far as my understanding goes, a quantum process works on a subjective level, meaning that to the cat, it is either alive or dead, but to an outside observer, it is both. Of course, I'm not claiming to fully understand quantum physics (I don't think anyone does yet), but this seems to me the most logical explanation by far.

[swimmingcoffeeNCgirl]

Why does it seem that all British people love science?

Also, no. I hate Schroder's cat because it is dead or it's alive, not both. Just because you don't know which does not mean it's both. Shesh

[nickharvey7]

@swimmingcoffeeNCgirl If quantum wave particle function explained by Schrödinger’s wave equation represents the forward passage of time ∆E ∆t ≥ h/2π itself. Then Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the wave function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event and the cat is alive or dead within its own reference frame.

[busterbrownation]

@swimmingcoffeeNCgirl I don't think you would understand the guy's reply, so I'm just gonna give you a simpler way to think about the experiment.

You think it HAS to be either dead or alive. Does it? You tell me. How can you prove that the cat has to be either dead or alive? The fact that people haven't been able to formulate an answer to that question and many others is why Schrodinger's cat theory has stood the test of time as an idea in quantum theory.

And the other guy's reply is great, btw.

[WB7thstTribute]

@swimmingcoffeeNCgirl Yes it does, it is quantum physics that is why it is considered both.

[BadassBear95]

Transparent. Box...'nuff said

[elvishperson]

@BadassBear95 That defeats the whole purpose of it, In quantum physics the mere observation of an experiment changes its outcome.

[DaveWreckingCrew]

I don't get it. The cat either dies or it lives. Its not both. What am I not understanding?

[esraretin]

im bored with quanum psyhics.its boring.x=Y %50,50 xxxxxxxx

[tailskid101]

this makes things sound so boring. you need more energy in your tone or else you'll be more boring than standing in front of a brick wall

[Crypt1cmyst1c]

this isnt a paradox. it's a lesson in quantum superstates. 

[badazzpresidents23]

Listen to this while baked as fuck.

[D33veeoss]

Quantum Mechanics is a type of science. Classical Newtonian Physics likewise. Psychology is yet another. - "It is so beautiful and complete and simple." - paraphrased. - Uh-huh. And that's why we're fumbling our way through someone else's footnotes? - How much you wanna bet that the dude who's coattails you cling to has long since shed his coat for a new and improved model...like a good scientist does...time and time again. -

[D33veeoss]

@D33veeoss Desperate for answers and any answer will do.

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Cloak the answer in a PhD and away we go! Surely that's the best guess.

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[nickharvey7]

@D33veeoss But only until he finds the truth!

[AccOfSpdes]

thank you!



[uthpala1000]

I FINALLY GOT IT. THANKS MAN !!! one question does it only works with Schrodinger's cat????

[nickharvey7]

@uthpala1000 No it’s a universal process that we see and feel as the passage of time!

[LiveOliveJuice]

Core Corruption At 100%

[poodlelord]

In order to observe a particle it must have time, in order for light to be a wave, it cannot experiences time, by observing it, we slow it down so it has time, causing it to no longer be a wave, but a particle.

[nickharvey7]

@poodlelord So this process (wave particle duality) forms what we see and feel as the passage of time and represents time at the most fundamental level.

[poodlelord]

@nickharvey7 In fact, nothing exists as we might define existence, untill it is observed, because there is no time in which to observe it in.

[nickharvey7]

@poodlelord The so called observer effect is explained in this theory because light has to come in contact with our eyes for us to see therefore our eyes collapse the w-function just like any other object in our Universe by coming into physical contact with.

[poodlelord]

@nickharvey7 Well, if it were only our eyes that were "observers" they would be the only things to experience time. Everything, and anything, light can come in contact with, is an observer. 

[D33veeoss]

@poodlelord Interesting point.

[Opaloxide]

"In a very simple process" my arse!

[qwertycamera]

the light is going so fast it hits everywhere almost at once.

[hackenbollox]

Quantum atom theory? I'm fairly familiar with all the terms in particle physics and quantum mechanics, but I never cam across that one.

Oh, and Schrödinger's cat isn't a paradox, because superposition isn't a contradiction.

[Ashda8]

So in watching something you are altering it's outcome.

If those terms simple enough.

Lamens: You changed the outcome by measuring it.

[nickharvey7]

@mlnBG Check out my more modern videos with improved sound!

[DeStijn]

I stopped watching this video after 10 seconds.

it's a real shame because it was recommended to me by several people, but your voice is too annoying and boring to listen at!

[Cobra0811]

fix the audio plaese

[Ilissill]

Is this Steven Hawking's brother?

[SpatialVortex]

What's up with naked paintings of women? 

[simon6071]

@FooootballFreak

I understand your reasonable criticism against those stupid scientists in present day who pretend to be smarter than the ordinary people by saying that a cat can be both dead and alive at the same time in the Schrodinger's Cat experiment.

[simon6071]

But I must point out that the blame should be on those stupid scientists who do not really try to understand Schrodinger's idea. Actually, Schrodinger was AGAINST the belief that quantum uncertainty observed in quantum particles was applicable to something alive and as big as a cat. He was trying to use the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment to show the absurdity of the belief held by his opponents.

[nickharvey7]

@simon6071 This is true! Schrodinger and also Einstein believed that quantum mechanics is not a complete theory. I also believe there is something missing in our understanding of quantum mechanics. This is why I am making these videos to explain that this ‘something’ is the flow of time itself and that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is the same uncertainty that we have with any future event.

[PortuguesePunisherrr]

@nickharvey7 Let's make this supposition, you have the most powerful computer in THE UNIVERSE, it's powerfulness is infinite... ok... now let's assume that you, somehow know where every electron and every proton and every neutron are and their trajectories, wouldn't you be able to predict the future by computing those trajectories? I mean, I know that when you look at the atom and try to see where in space is the electron you interfere with the system, but lets assume this technology doesn't...

[nickharvey7]

@PortuguesePunisherrr I don’t think we could ever predict the future whatever the technology we had. Even if we assume the technology would not create its own uncertainty we would form new photons and electron just by looking and thinking. This is a continuous or infinite process so there is always more to the future to predict or understand.

[PortuguesePunisherrr]

@nickharvey7 Lets assume future-0,1,2,...,n.

With this supposed technology you would even be capable of see what's going to happen in a future-0 where you already know what's going to happen (future-1), and in your sight of future-1 you already know what's going to happen in future-1 (future-2)... this will continue infinitely trough a future-n where n->+infinite... paradox? Maybe I'm missing a point here, am I? Are the atomic particles "lying"? Or you simply CAN'T predict future?

[megacraft]

@simon6071 wasn't his atomic model based on quantum mechanics? wasn't decoherence the point on that experiment? on which the state of the matter gets his result depending on the surrounding?

[simon6071]

However, since he is now dead and cannot defend his proper ideas, those stupid scientists are ignorant and shameless enough to cite the Schrodinger's Cat experiment as if Schrodinger agreed with their stupid idea of a both dead and alive cat in the experiment.

Read my comments debunking the lies of those stupid scientists under YouTube video "Quantum Entanglement - The Weirdness Of Quantum Mechanics"

[matmat673]

Quantum Boobies (2:24)... Observed, collapsed, and grand

[FooootballFreak]

omg.. cant belive a scientist can be that stupid.. a cat is not dead/and alive just because YOU cant see it, the thing is that YOU dont KNOW if it is dead or alive.. omg get a life belivers

[USN755]

what does this have to do with a CAT

[KnifeSniper69]

Annoying voice

[Scwirul]

Quote; "of a atom"

*sigh*

[biodisater12]

dammit why did carl sagan have to die? i dont understand this =/

[redice1024]

@biodisater12 What philhellenes "science saved my soul"

[SteveUllom]

So will learning all about this save me from the the endless dreamless sleep of death? or should i try to have fun before i die? all be it math and such may be fun for you. if so lucky you.

[buscadoradesuenos]

ok...for a person with no understandment of quantom meqanics ...this is like magic....jeje

[starstarstar42]

Yeah, this happened to my cousin. He was just chillin on the corner when suddenly, BAM! Quantum Paradox. He might never walk again.

[velequest]

Is this a lecture on quantum theory or an opportunity to display an art portfolio?

[nickharvey7]

@velequest Neither it is a theory explaining the paradoxes of quantum physics by giving mankind an understanding of the passage of time and the geometry of spacetime.

[jonesgerard]

@cunnidvd

I can't listen to it.

[Fr3derick]

Great video!!!

Grandma mary

[SpankBankLLC]

Im still wrapping up my bachelors in engineering and I can tell lyou this is straight up bull crap. Grade D Bull crap.

[nickharvey7]

@SpankBankLLC Even crap will have a position in space and time that will have the geometry of spacetime.

[SpankBankLLC]

@nickharvey7 I specialize in the space industry and I study orbits quite a lot. Orbits are defined geometrically as shifted planes intersecting a cone. Just because the mathematics breaksdown that way does not mean that there are literal cones of a diemension being intersected by the sattelites existence and trajectory. Im not dismissing the posibility, I just ask to keep science fiction and science separate until there is actual evidence to support the claim.

[nickharvey7]

@SpankBankLLC I agree science fiction and science should be separate just like religion and science. But we see 4pi in the equation for the gravitational field and in the equation that describes electric charges. Electrostatics is subject to Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle and 4pi is in the equation for the Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle we also see pi in the reduced Planck constant. Could this not be seen as evidence of the spherical geometry of spacetime?

[SpankBankLLC]

@nickharvey7 Many of the biggest supporters of science would have strongly disagreed that science and religion should be separate. Neither of which controlling the other of course, but harmonous when correct.

I just feel we are getting a little ahead of ourselves. We should be looking into the substructure of the universe before speculating in it. We first had to discover the electron before we learned about ionization and photon emmision.

[nickharvey7]

@SpankBankLLC I feel that what we need is a simple idea. To say that the probability of the Uncertainty Principle is the same probability that the observer will have with any future event is a simple idea. Once we have an overall view of what is happening then we can look at substructure or subatomic particles. Otherwise we are like a Stone Age man hitting two flints together creating sparks giving the sparks names like quarks.

[kaleb821]

i dont fucking get this shit but the dude sounded like a fag...

[Yorkshireconnection]

TIME does not exist

[nickharvey7]

@Yorkshireconnection We know time exist because we have time dilation when objects accelerate towards the speed of light and also around objects of great mass. We see this in the Lorentz contraction of spacetime therefore time must be a measurement and a variable.

[nickharvey7]

I recommend Richard Mullers lectures on You Tube quantum mechanics for a future President. This is not one of my best videos the later one have better graphics.

[daemonpoet]

Terry Pratchet, famous author of the Disc World books, found a third state for Schrodinger's Cat. Read Lords and Ladies to find out. :) I may stop by to post the third state later but I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you.

[nickharvey7]

Thanks for your comment! But no in this theory there is only one Universe and only one cat. We have an infinity of future possibilities because time is unfolding at the quantum level of the atoms. Time is formed by the forward momentum of EMR or light from one atom to another. The atoms of the cat have bonded together to form their own future spacetime geometry.

[AD80808]

So is this theory saying that there are an infinite number of parallel universes based upon all the different outcomes of the action of every single atom? There exists a universe where the cat died and one where the cat lived? Please help, I have never really tried to learn about Quantum Theory until recently.

[MrFerrousplague]

great vid btw

[MrFerrousplague]

that fucking atom better not kill the cat

[battlestroke7]

Great posting,I loved it. I totally agree with it. It answers some questions i've had. I did not expect to find an answer for a question i could barely compose.Thanks 5 stars.

[jvl5000]

Duh.........I was drooling after 2 minutes...

[Angelgrave1982]

Can you explain that again in english? I can't understand a single thing you are saying... :(

[happyidiottalk]

You know if I understood what you're saying a little more, I'd probably be fascinated. Damn my brain!

[BriansVideoHobby]

But will it create new moments in time and space and quantum particles?

[Keijiei]

I want to sample this guy's voice for some music.

}:3

[nickharvey7]

Thanks for the comment, the best way to control it is to learn how to control our own mind first because our mind is a part of it,

[higgsbason]

I really enjoyed your video. A very compelling view of our reality. I think I will be watching it many times to fully grasp the concepts. Do you recommend any other literature?

[nickharvey7]

Thanks for these comments, the bad sound quality represents the broken symmetry of spacetime and the imperfection of Life.

[Dvicious]

word his voice is creepin' me the fuck out

[kw1ksh0t]

DEVON!!! YESS

[timplummer]

i found this video thoroughly interesting

thanks very much for posting

[mamushi72sai5575]

AGGGHHH I usually like english accents but for some reason his voice is too soft and it is creepy as shit!

[osotrari]

ok we create our own time and space. we have free will to create our own future. now the part that i really want to understand.. how do you control it???

[yari13]

yeah!! how?????

[iambehindthemirror]

@osotrari You can't unless you're a spirit.