IDTIMWYTIM: Schrodinger's Cat
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Published on May 8, 2012
"I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means" examines scientific theories that have taken on a life of their own in popular culture & we help you understand what they really mean in scientific terms. Today we take on Schrodinger's Cat, the famous thought experiment by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger.
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Aegis Nova 4 days ago
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted dead and alive! :D

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1995magnus 5 days ago
Schrodinger's cat wanted dead AND alive
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excel2037 1 hour ago
Don't say the cat isn't subject to quantum mechanics, because it's literally made of them. Say the cat is too large for quantum effects to be easily visible.
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Omar Jain 3 hours ago
I'm always trying to explain these to people, I'll just show them this video now, jajaj. By the way, I laughed when you said that the theory of the multiple universes is your favorite because it makes good science fiction because thats the reason I like it too, jaja.
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ArcesseEum 6 hours ago
The cat is an observer.
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DsyelxicBob 14 hours ago
Multiverses fuck with your head don't they?
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John Lovén 20 hours ago
You say that in the Many Worlds theory, after the experiment, there is one universe in which the cat is alive and one in which the cat is dead.
Shouldn't there be an INFINITE number of universes in which the cat is alive and an INFINITE number in which it is dead?
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Qu35s710n3v3ry741n9 21 hours ago
I am curious, why is the cat never really considered an observer and therefore having it's own affect on quantum reality while inside the box?
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Qu35s710n3v3ry741n9 21 hours ago
If it were in a glass box then we would be able to observe it, which gets rid of the entire point of the possibility of superposition.
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Grant Hillis 21 hours ago
Why do gosts only come out at night
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JustAddMercury 1 day ago
Wait! Wait! Wait! Why don't we put a cat in a GLASS BOX?!?!?!?1
There! I just solved physics!!! NOBEL PRIZE PLEASE!!!!!
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Jason Meyer 1 day ago
IDEA FOR IDTIMWYTIM SEMANTICS YOU DECIDE WHAT I'M SAYING! lol
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