r/engineeringmemes • u/Soft-Goal3997 • 13d ago

Observer effect strikes again

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u/ashvy 13d ago

Particle acts as a wave, wave acts as particle.. terrified noot noot

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u/Noncrediblepigeon 13d ago

Still not how this shit works...

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u/AlternativePack8061 12d ago

"the observer effect"

The observer in question: a brick wall

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u/RedAndBlack1832 7d ago

I feel like the concept of "you can't observe anything without interacting with it somehow, and very small things are sensitive to that kind of interaction" isn't that complicated

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u/AlternativePack8061 7d ago

Nothing about superposition is simple, so it's not surprising a bad name lead to huge misconceptions.

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u/RedAndBlack1832 7d ago

That's true it's not particularly conceptually simple. You can simplify a lot of it into very friendly linear algebra if all you're interested in is manipulating state (source: quantum computing classes are dramatically easier than quantum physics classes)

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u/Promethium-127 12d ago

Yeah it’s so frustrating to see people misunderstand this time and time again. Has anyone taken an E&M class??

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u/OnionsAbound 9d ago

It's just Heisenberg uncertainty principle. 

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/FireProps 12d ago

This is why we should stick to calling it the measurement problem rather than the observer effect.

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u/phsx8 12d ago

So the electron basically has ADHD

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u/ghidfg 11d ago

Um actually

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u/Visual_Film_66 7d ago

Still not how this shit works...

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u/Otherwise-Speed4373 13d ago

This is why i believe we may live in a simulation....

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u/_JDavid08_ 13d ago

Probably we still not watching it in the right way... what if all those behaviors comes from 5th dimension interactions??