Friday, January 10, 2020

Quantum physics made real - with cats

I've been learning about quantum mechanics. How an electron isn't a particle, it's a wave function, in superposition. But while it behaves like a wave, and you can predict its behaviour like a wave function, the act of observing it causes the wave function to collapse and it behaves like a particle.

This cat stalking video is the perfect expression of that. When you're not looking, it's in superposition. The moment you look, it's not.


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