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@D5932 You would see a large "circle."

@TheBiddleMan You would never see superposition no matter what the size of the "particle." Superposition is only possible for an isolated system, not a system that is being observed.

@haloman800 QM applies to all forms of matter, but its effects are only apparent at very small scales. They are easy to see at the level of individual electrons; researchers have managed to produce interference effects for 60-atom molecules. For any object visible to the naked eye, the effect...

@ThePhilosorpheus I don't think he meant that other people were simulations and only he was "real," but that all of us are "simulations" in the sense that we are not physical entities. We are virtual systems, perhaps running on some sort of hardware, but we ourselves are not physical. We are ...

@jamma246 We never directly observe superposition, and neither would the cat. We wouldn't even see its effects in this experiment. The fact is, only if a particle could observe itself would it have any chance of "experiencing" superposition.

@Miniumette Science carries basic assumptions such as methodological naturalism which cannot be tested, and its findings are always provisional. This is fine as long as you can live with provisional truth rather than ultimate truth. As I said, its value is utilitarian. Religion has done no be...

This appears to be a young southern pacific rattler.

@keggerous I think the confusion about the role of consciousness really boils down to reversibility. Human observations are never reversed, yet we see that which-path information can be erased in QM experiments. The fact is, every observation is reversible in principle, but the complexity of a...

@slr150 The problem is that a process like the movement of the arrow doesn't have the luxury of integrating across the interval all at once. It has to be at a specific location at a specific time. A process by its very nature is a sequence, and a sequence cannot proceed through the elements of...

@Thireus The fact that each electron strikes one and only one location, even though its wave function is spread out over a substantial area, is an example of "collapse." However, some physicists avoid using the term collapse. To illustrate how tricky this is, we could change the wave functions...