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What does it mean?
Sounds like it’s just trying to mix up words to make normal cause and effect sound like spooky action at a distance.
Words are a bad medium for conveying truth about reality. Or anything, really.
SCIENTISTS PROVE SPEAKING WILL KILL YOU!
Yes!
Ahhh, I see, thank you!
Yet again, much smarter than your username implies!
It’s a ruse to let me call people dumbass’s and get away with it and I’m also a dumbass.
We are all dumbasses in one way or another
Yeah we are, ya dumbass.
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When this baby hits 88mph, we’re gonna see some serious shit.
See, this is why I prefer the (terribly named) “Many Worlds” interpretation. Unlike the Copenhagen interpretation, it does not privilege measurement over other types of interactions between systems. That is, the wave function never collapses, it only seems to because you, as the observer, are part of the system.
The easy way to see this is to imagine that you put some other experimenter inside of a box. When they perform a measurement, from your perspective the wave function has not yet collapsed, but from the experimenter’s perspective the wave has collapsed. Essentially, it is as if the system in a box has branched so that there are multiple copies of the experimenter within, one who sees each possible measurement result, but because you are outside of it you could, in theory, reverse the measurement and unite the two branches. However, it is important to understand that the concept of branches is just a visualization; it is nothing inherent to the theory, and when things get even slightly more complicated than the situation I have described, they do not meaningfully exist at all.
(Also, if it seems implausible that a macroscopic system in a box could remain in a superposition of multiple states, you actually are not wrong! However, the reason is not theoretical but practical: any system inside the box will interact thermally with the box itself, so unless it is perfectly insulated you cannot help but interact with it and therefore measure it yourself. This keeps going until essentially the entire world cannot help but perform a measurement of your system. Preventing this tendency from screwing things up is one of the things that makes building quantum computers hard.)
So you’re saying there’s a world where Bernie Sanders won in 2016, trump died of covid without the presidential medical suite, americans have universal healthcare, rent control, net neutrality, and free tuition, citizen’s united was repealed, the US never pulled out of international treaties, russia never invaded Ukraine, the latest iteration of the Israel-Palestine conflict never kicked off, the Taliban never took back control of the Afghan government, the resurgence of white supremacy and militant nationalism never took off, criminal justice systems were reformed into data-driven, prevention-first, community-centric public safety models, social and mental health services are fully-funded and effective addiction treatment strategies implemented, reducing demand for the illicit drug market and financially starving out violent criminal syndicates, victimless crimes were decriminalized and regulated for harm-prevention and reduction, nations actually kept their commitments towards climate action and reduced warming to below the target of 2° (possibly even below 1.5°), financial oligarchy was stopped in its tracks, billionaires and corporations are taxed at a fair rate, world hunger has been abolished, and we’re all well on our way towards world peace and prosperity?
No.
Yes.
Yes, but it can be mathematically proven that this world was only made possible by the decimation of the population due to the tide pod challenge having been started two years earlier.
You mean like natural selection?
That’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.
I’m confused, bc in my armchair reading I’ve thought about why quantum computers try to store information rather than read it from the quantum wave state. Like if everything is connected, if you know about one thing you know about all things. I don’t even know if that makes sense 😂🤷🏻♀️
One of the things that a quantum computer needs to be able to do in order to function is to hold information at rest, no different from your classical computer. There are two things that make this tricky. First, the information is analog, rather than digital. Second, the environment likes to sneakily “measure” your data so that it decoheres and no longer behaves the way it should. Both kinds of problems are in practice dealt with by encoding the quantum information so that errors can be corrected.
If the word “decoheres” sounds really fancy, think about it this way: coherence versus decoherence is the difference between a rainbow and a grey cloud. In the former case the waves are able to interfere with each other in interesting ways, whereas in the latter case they scatter and do not interfere, producing boring results.
That’s awesome, I hope I’m understanding it enough to think it’s awesome anyways 😂 Thanks for writing that out 💜
they do not meaningfully exist at all.
Does anything, really?
If you are able to read this, then you exist as a conscious being. Everything else is just a model, which you experience as thought projected into your consciousness, just as you experience other senses.
Sounds like he is reading too much into the observer effect and now has been reclassified himself as an astrologer.
If later you realize that you did have time, you will have already read and understood it
Professor, we’re not sending information back in time, we’re just rearranging the structure of the multiverse!
I’m intelligent, but not nearly intelligent enough for whatever this is…
Is this just another way of talking about the Teleological framework of time (like the heptapods in Arrival)?
I think it has something to do with a philosophical argument I read almost 2 decades ago.
It went something along the lines of; we create new physics the more we study and understand it. Like a rendering fractal, the closer you look the more complex it becomes.
That reminds me of the bit from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where the moment anyone actually understands the universe the whole thing disappears and is replaced with something even bigger, weirder, and more confusing.
So, a new Copenhagen interpretation? 🤔
life in the suck zone.
I’m way too high for this shit.
Or not high enough.
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Life is literally so easy once you understand this one trick.
I wrote about this idea on Lemmy before and I got downvoted for it.
That’s because you were looking for the upvotes.
It’s right there on the study. If you had been troll-posting looking for the downvote lulz, you would have gotten the reverse. The reverse of. The reverse of the thing of the thing of the reverse of.I was not looking for anything. So I found everything of nothing.
I was not looking for not something
and then I found everything of nothing
and heaven knows I’m miserable now
Goddamnit Sarah Conner!
Fate is predetermined by physics!
I’m going to ruin the joke by explaining that it makes you do shit, then “responds” to itm
Is it retrocausality ?
