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mercurythea.i :
Can you or have you explained the difference between probability fields and tactile/measurable fields. For example, photons can exist in large probability fields, there are mathematical equations that can explain its wave function but the probability field isn’t actually a literal area that a photon encompasses. How is this possible if it’s just an equation that describes the wave function when a photon/light is a real property of the universe. Further, this field collapses when the photon is captured or observed? I probably don’t fully understand what wave functions, probability fields fully means beyond a very narrow literal interpretation. I hope this question makes sense.
2026-09-17 06:08:00
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the duckest :
So the cat stays alive as long as I keep checking it every so often?
2026-09-12 19:07:08
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Call me Sam :
"sometimes a watched pot really never boils" 🙄🙄🙄🙄 Yeah, if you are trying to boil water in the oven and you keep opening the door to measure the temperature of the water it will never boil. . Remember that in quantum environments there is no light to see by the only way to "watch" things is to interact with them thus changing their state.👍
2026-09-13 04:12:02
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Jade :
I've always been confused by how quantum physicists talk about observation. Taking it at face value seems to apply a very human and metaphysical concept of "observation" to what I would presume to be a "hard" science". If observation is not meant in the sense of the human metaphysical concept of gaining information, how is it meant and why is it not differentiated?
2026-09-12 19:58:01
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ArChu :
So it's not about some metaphysical act of "observation", they're just acting a force on it. Who would've thought that pop science presents this wrong
2026-09-12 18:24:28
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Abdullah :
Doesn’t the state return back to its unitary time evolution right after the collapse?
2026-09-16 08:21:54
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RNGeek Games :
If this could be done to a particle's spin, it would definitely allow for ftl information exchange between entangled particles.
2026-09-12 20:30:19
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Shini BlackRose II :
Why? to save energy on the massive sandbox were all in 👀
2026-09-15 17:18:15
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ℝ🥑ℂC0 :
but Zeno's paradox is countered as time being continous and not discrete
2026-09-12 17:49:44
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Simba2531 :
I’m envisioning this like frogger where the frog tries to get across but every time there’s a car he hops back. But instead of a frog and cars it’s atoms and laser pulses
2026-09-12 18:05:37
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Jetstream🇨🇦 :
So does the laser move the atom back to its original position when it’s on? If it does then this seems relatively intuitive. If you allow an object to “roam” randomly and at regular time intervals you move it back to where it started, and the experiment ends when the object exceeds a certain distance from the starting point, it seems intuitive that shortening the period of time between resets would make it take longer to escape. Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see how this is uniquely quantum? I could imagine doing the same thing with say a leaf floating on water, or (less ethically) with a bug trying to escape a circle on a table.
2026-09-12 19:25:47
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vesa_2 :
"Scientists really be jerking the laser knob on their working hours. Despite that, they didn't lose a single atom"
2026-09-12 18:45:07
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lucas9sNTC :
I think I'm a bit on the slow side but I don't get the boiling analogy. It's just the atom moving or not moving right?
2026-09-12 18:55:02
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unbebelievable :
this seems to conflict with a a multiworld interpretation, or am i reading too much into it🤔
2026-09-12 18:50:23
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Owen :
I feel as if that is misleading and can cause conspiracies. Its less of a watched pot and more of a pot being interacted with.
2026-09-15 16:46:25
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Leechthechangeling :
*Atom with full consciousness waiting for the big people to stop looking* "I'm literally out of here"
2026-09-12 18:52:35
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Kyuda :
Does that mean that time is or isn’t “quantum?”
2026-09-12 18:42:53
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Usurael :
Zeno said " at any instant, an instant being 0 seconds, the arrow occupies space equal to itself, therefore no motion". he's tied for my favorite philosopher because without him we wouldn't have quantum physics. and the arrow paradox is where Lorenz got the idea of the Lorenz factor and Einstein was inspired to create general relativity.
2026-09-12 18:08:39
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JJ_Johnson_3000 :
Just that experiment itself is pretty mind-blowing.
2026-09-12 18:22:12
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Nat¤n :
So the atom is taking screenshot of itself uh
2026-09-12 17:54:32
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SalM :
How do people who believe in the many worlds interpretation explain this. Each observation prefers an “identical world “?
2026-09-12 21:10:15
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Crazy Tech Dude :
Sounds more like the trap applies more force and/or recenters/stabilizes more than expected tho.
2026-09-13 00:06:44
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Longmaoco :
This reminds me of quickly looking at a clock a few times and it seems like the hands don’t move
2026-09-16 08:52:33
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Sasha :
Is this sort of evidence for "collapse" models over Many Worlds? In Many Worlds, if each measurement produces a split, it should be that you have an equal chance of being in the reality where it did move, so the frequency of measurement should not affect the probability of movement -- or am I way off here?
2026-09-12 18:05:11
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justin :
Obviously this laser trap cant be as simple as “holding something” otherwise its completely intuitive: If you check on Andy Dufresne every hour, he never escapes. If you check on him every morning, he escapes..
2026-09-13 00:30:00
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