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xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse

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Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

Superdeterminism FTW; it makes the same predictions as all other quantum interpretations, but makes me feel good about the universe (e.g. doesn't have this wavefunction collapsing from observations weirdness), so I stick to it. I may be slightly autistic.

[–] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Nothing has driven my desire to learn physics more than the urge to get rid of all the randomness in it. It's bloody irksome.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 days ago

Quantum Mechanics doesn’t have to be random. Look up bohmian quantum mechanics which is a fairly simple hidden variable model and is deterministic.

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