IDTIMWYTIM: Schrodinger's Cat

"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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[IAmEpicerThanYou]

Ha! I did think what you thought it meant!

[darkstickman1]

Heisenberg and Schrodinger are speeding down the highway when they are pulled over by a cop. The cop strolls up to the window as Heisenberg roles it down.

The cop asks, "Sir do you know how fast you were going?"

Heisenberg's, "No, but I know where I was."

The cop decides to search the car.

He opens the trunk and says, "Sir do you know you have a dead cat?"

Schrodinger say, "I do now!"

[HackerinyourPC2008]

Portal 2 :)

[heckubiss1]

our perception of space and time is just wave function collapse. They are only illusions.. although stubborn ones.

[sbcavo4332]

Bioshock Infinite plays with the alternate quantum scenario theory a fuckton.

[Andrea Grieco]

The essence of the matter is this. Nobody can understand Quantum mechanics. Those who say they understand it, affirm their folly!

[Kaushik Choudhury]

IDTIMWYTIM - May I request video on Supercooling ?

[superliteman]

3:12 the plot to bioshock infinite

[sanchir otgonbold]

so this law applies to "bioshock: infinite" too?

[kid12j]

You got top comment, just thought I'd let you know...

[hejmuhko]

They aren't "non-quantum" then: That's the point of these experiments.