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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Anyone else bored as fuck, and wish someone would post another Misoginyst/Misandrist post, so we can read people getting upset?

I'm actually kind of addicted to watching the hate now. I'm not even Misoginyst/Misandrist myself.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I’ve read this like ten times and I think the joke might be that quantum mechanics are difficult to explain to everyone, of which women are obviously a subset. But maybe I’m doling out too much credit lol

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The joke is that quantum mechanics are difficult to understand, so the commenter doubts their ability to properly explain it (to women). The replier assumed it was a dig at women's intelligence, not a reflection of the original commenter's intelligence and ability to explain.

I.e. a stupid person would have difficulty explaining anything to women.

[–] abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

To be fair, the original question did not suggest it needed to be easy to explain to men. The only requirement was to be difficult to explain to women. So, technically, this answers the question as written.

[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Every time my wife walks in on me peeing she just stares at my pecker and asks me "so how does it come out?"

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Imagine your vulva formed a tube around your urethra

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 9 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

My grandfather didn't die in Korea so that people could fight online like this.

[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago

We used to be a country /s

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I was just referring to an old internet joke that was in the same vein as this post.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 17 hours ago

I was expecting a similar response to OP's. Especially for him.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Both quotes attributed to Richard Feynman.

[–] pcalau12i@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The "weirdness" of QM all stems from a belief in "value indefiniteness," which is the idea that particles have no real properties when you are not looking at them, but suddenly acquire real properties when you look. If you believe that, then the question naturally arises, at what point do they acquire real properties precisely? What does "look" even rigorously mean? This issue was first brought up by John Bell in his article "Against 'Measurement'". The "answers" to this always fall into one of three categories:

  1. "Look" just means you become aware of it. This devolves into solipsism, because other people are also made up of particles, so they would have no real properties either until you become aware of them.
  2. "Look" is more of a specific physical process that measuring devices do. But this is vague without rigorously and mathematically defining what this physical process is, and if you do define it, then it's provable that no definition can be consistent with the mathematics of quantum mechanics. If we agree with the premise that "quantum mechanics is correct," then such an approach is trivially ruled out.
  3. There is no "look," systems never acquire real, observable properties at all. But then you run into Wittgenstein's rule-following problem. If the mathematical model never predicts that a system acquires real properties, then you can never tie it back to any real-world observation.

The "weirdness" stems from starting with an assumption that is not logically possible to make consistent in the first place and then developing dozens of "interpretations" trying to make it consistent, but none of the major interpretations are ultimately logically consistent if we agree that (1) objective reality exists and (2) quantum mechanics is correct (some may be argued to be consistent but only because they openly admit they're dropping off #1 or #2).

Feynman's belief in "value indefiniteness" stems from an argument he made here regarding the double-slit argument and how probabilities should add together. I made a video here explaining why his argument does not work, but you can also read John Bell's paper here because von Neumann made a similar flawed argument and Bell gave a similar rebuttal to it.

If you just drop off "value indefiniteness" as an assumption, which has no justification for it in the academic literature, then all the quantum woo around quantum mechanics disappears, and the arguments over interpretations like Copenhagen or Many Worlds or QBism simply become superfluous.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can't explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

We all end up looking at cats in boxes pictures on the internet whenever we start to try to understand oh wow this cat is funny.

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[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 7 points 22 hours ago

Redditor failed the litmus test for misandrists

[–] Elentirmo@lemmy.ca 6 points 22 hours ago

I pretty sure magic is involved

[–] JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

This is peak my phone is fighting for its life energy 😂

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 129 points 1 day ago (12 children)

It's hard to explain quantum mechanics when you don't understand them.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I understand them! They perform oil changes on the quantum

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're so good they fix your car on the quantum level!

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

They both do and don't fix your car, you just don't know until you've paid them. No refunds!

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 90 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's hard to explain quantum mechanics even when you understand them.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There’s an old joke about quantum mechanics professors starting their first lecture with something along the lines of “right now, some of you probably understand quantum mechanics. By the end of the semester, if I did my job right, none of us will understand it.”

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they're lucky they might understand kubernetes though.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Or as the professionals call it, k8s

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a superposition of knowledge and ignorance.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 30 points 1 day ago (9 children)

The more you know the less you know

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago

Damn Heisenberg

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

We know, but it's getting a bit cringe now

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Cropped so I get the authentic glaucoma experience.

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