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spaceisneat
Heh. Math sex.
gotohe11carolina
Well a laugh and a lesson. Kudos!
WhereDidTheLastHourGo
Am I superposed to understand any of this?
ICannotSanctionURBuffoonery
Great! Now I have more questions than when we started!
TinyOctopus
Tiny octopus just had the first talk with the girls about quantum theory last week. Started slow with the cats and the boxes.
DougTheLlama
You know you have to talk about the boy parts too, right?
zrXO
This is art dude, THIS IS ART. I learned something, I enjoyed something and I am happy with it. THIS IS ART.
MaverickTitan
My god that was beautiful.
autocrash
Reminded me of my undergrad quantum mechanics courses, in a good way.
repulgis
Midgarmerc
I'm gonna pretend I read all that
kumagororyu
Heh... spooky action at a distance.
JoeMangoJello
That's literally what Einstein called it.
kumagororyu
I know. It's a cool refernce.
AlmightyElephant
Tbh I thought quantum computing had something to do with quantum linked particles? That thing that people were talking about where you change one particle and the other one mimics the change or something?
Somebody smart will know what I'm talking about and be able to tell me what I'm talking about in a way that's not wrong.
pxlphile
IIRC this comic has a title text which mildly rants against xkcd creator Randall Monroe, something something "outnerd this now"
davemUnderscoreOr
I feel like I should at least get a MSc after reading this.
DmNerd
TIL something....I think.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Are you... uncertain?
etcnotect
In principle
hollenqual
Shut up Walter!
GratuaCuun
Mikeiller
So, anybody else just stopped reading everything and started skipping ahead?
Photeus
Next discussion with mom will be about that spooky action at a distance, locality. It's the idea that our 'local' universe is actually non-local and things at one place can affect things at another that aren't necessarily related at all. But, that's my very weak understanding of it.
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
Why do I feel horny all of a sudden?
OdinYggd
Because of this. https://xkcd.com/853/
terriblethunderlizards
I like how it lost me at interference. I got bored.
geoffreyfourmyle
TrappedInABubbleGumFactory
Brain hirty
KitchenClean
Thanks bruh. I feel so dumb right now. There are so many part people on Imgur.
HighFlyKai
So is the only way to get mathematically precise explanations of these things to read science journals and textbooks?
chiechien
Yes. And the occasional extremely nerdy blog
wetqueef
This is way too detailed for me. I’m just gonna keep reading stories in the New Yorker about how enemy states will “solve” quantum computing first and use it to destroy everything digital and decrypt all secrets.
vegivamp
Every time I see this, something else seems to click. I don't think I'll ever really get it, but at least every time I read it my conviction is reaffirmed that anyone trying to sell quantum whatever is talking bullshit.
rbudrick
The probability the cat exploded is not 0?
darthstormer
DidItForScience
This advice happens to apply to more intimate situations where classical physics are in play.
agathos
ExTechOp
The original is from 2016 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
PSYchr
That's what she said.
Asadsadsadclown
This is making me spooky action at a distance.
SirDucken
Damn, beat me to it
JoeMangoJello
Thank you for doing that so I didn't have to.
ZK383
And here, in a nutshell, is why so many people look at quantum physicists as if they're members of a weird religion, taking so many unseen, unprovable things on faith. Well done, by the way, very well done. Enjoyed it!
WhyDontYouMakeMe
I don't know what's so complicated about a photon taking all possible paths to a destination at the same time, yet taking only a direct path, while also taking all of the divergent paths at the same time, to arrive at the same destination at the same time, or a different destination based on the timing of wave oscillations
waitwuh
this is like that comedian routine about the molecules in a chair and your hand.
Lun4ticH1gh
THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY FUCKIN' SENSE. That comedian is Pete Holmes. https://youtu.be/OyDpS-GftCk?si=ZKbJI6s7ipW2Gvz-
memedrift2410
None of it is taken on faith. Religious people like to think so, but this is all experimentally proven. Good, the holy Spirit, demons, devils and spirits and magic, THAT is all taken on faith. Just because it takes years of study to understand does not mean it's the same thing as "God done telled my heart!"
KaptainObveeus
I have met God, it's not taken on faith for me. (It's us, we are God)
ImNotRacistBut
People hear about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and interpret it to mean that we can never know anything about a particle and so can't be studied.
daromander
It's not all experimentally proven. That's the issue. It's theoretically proven but that could change tomorrow when we might discover something completely new or we discover that 1+1 actually equals 3
ArenheimTheHybrid
middlenameconfusion
The answer to the one-word test is "Pond".
cercle
Statistics.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
ArenheimTheHybrid
MeSoErnie
ConvokeMyropolist
yes.
BeverlyHillsBillie
This brings back nostalgic memories of when my Mom explained Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to me, sniff sniff.
ProfessorDumbass
Is your father, your father..your mom isn't sure. Could be Mr. Heisenberg the milkman
DougTheLlama
Where did she do that?
usernameshmoozername
What are you sniffing
Idontneedrealfacts
Meth
C0baltBlue
*Math
littlecoatfatguy
Your mom may or may not have explained Heisenberg to lots of us.
NomNomNeutron
c64masterrace
MithridateEupator
I looked. She did.
littlecoatfatguy
Perkunas687
Is it in or out? :'(
littlecoatfatguy
She exists in simultaneous superposition, if you know what I'm saying.