I slept through all my classes but history

so light is either a particle or wave depending on if we observe it or not ok

thats what i thought

Apparently people have done the double slit experiment and gotten the same results with C60, aka buckminsterfullerene. That's 60 carbon atoms!

Per molecule

idk what that means

I think we should perhaps look more into the medium light is travelling through rather than light itself

The earth is flat

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But my b*tch aint

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Thanks man

Well the interference patterns observed from the double slit experiment show that light and electrons experience wave/particle duality. This can be calculated with the schrodinger equation. Basically the less mass a particle has, the less likely you will be to predict its location.

C60 has a lot of mass

i dont believe in that shrodingers cat thing

thats a theory right ?

or is that even science sounded more like philosophy when i heard it

Apparently Schrodinger's cat is a thought experiment Schrodinger came up with to explain how silly super position is. (a particle being in both states at the same time).

I think he then realised that he couldn't actually disprove it.

yeah schrodingers cat isnt falsifiable

in the experiment schrodinger's cat is both dead and alive at the same time

It's not really a theory itself, more of a predictive model. The schrodinger equations form the basis of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), the current scientific consensus for the behaviour of the electromagnetic force. In fact, I don't think there's really a quantum theory that doesn't involve the schrodinger equations in some way.

Don't quote me on that though.

i thought it was his interpretation of quantum physics or something

nvm i searched up on google and i got this

“Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment about quantum physics. Erwin Schrödinger suggested it in 1935, in reaction to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics.”

It's as important to quantum mechanics as F=ma is to Newtonian physics

Apparently anyway.

i dont really know anything about quantum physics i just read about it

like i just read about string theory because i think its awesome

Same, but it pisses me off when I read it

Because it doesn't make sense

Or its counter intuitive

id imagine it does when you have it explained by a professor

because things online aren’t always explained in the best ways

Yeah, but it really doesn't make sense some times.

Like, I understand what they say, but it just doesn't seem logical.

yeah i find string theory and the fractal dimension very confusing

and then string theory also ties in to M theory which i dont even know what that is at the moment

but imo quantum physics is to complex for me to become a quantum physicist so im just gonna stick to software engineering

The problem I have is; we've reached a point in physics where it's really difficult to actually observe things accurately for what they are. We have to come up with complicated mathematics that involve a ton of probability.

When you apply that math to reality, strange things happen. Because it's not supposed to be reality, just predict it. But there's no choice but to apply the math to reality.