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  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzSchrödinger's Cat
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    In the reflection, the box appears to have a cat in it. There is no cat in the original (right side) box.

    This is a joke on the famous “Schrödinger’s cat”, a thought experiment about quantum superposition where a cat inside a box is both alive and dead at the same time, up until the moment someone looks into the box.

    To me as a layman, this sounds like utter hogwash, so it’s funny because it “proves” the experiment as best as it can be proven (which is not at all).

    I suspect many theoretical physicists think the same way, but they’ve learned these equations that tell them they need to believe this hogwash. Let’s spare a thought for their troubled souls…




  • A sad soul, with no humour left in it. Existence is pain, barely surviving on the scraps of joy it finds by putting others down, before those too fade away and they’re left alone in their dark, cold pit of misery and despair.

    But maybe there’s hope. Perhaps next time they hear a loud boom, they’ll whisper quietly under their breath, barely audible to those around him: “Dragonborn…”