Imagine being the smartest man alive and getting roasted by a couple of slits in a board.
Jachymord on
“Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.” – _Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri_
Jimmy50jive on
I dont remember the exact way this worked but aren’t you supposed to explain the history behind your post
Grand_Protector_Dark on
Honestly memes about the observer effect are always so obnoxious.
It’s not simply perceiving the experiment that changes the outcome. “Observing” means measuring here. Measuring requires interacting with the light particles.
What actually changes the outcome, is specifically the act of adding a detector to the slit itself (not the screen behind the double slot), so it can be clearly determined which slit the particle on passed through. This act of observing, aka measuring, requires the detector to interact with the particle in some way.
*This* is what collapses the interference pattern
FrostingGrand1413 on
Honestly, Bohr’s actual response is funnier than this meme.
‘You can’t tell God what to do with his dice’.
Funny, also true. Who’s to say an omnipotent weirdo wouldn’t randomly dick about with quantum nonsense. Both God and waveyparticles move in mysterious ways.
Hrtzy on
I like to extend the metaphor that Einstein’s version was that God plays with a loaded deck. There is [a class of experiments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_delayed-choice_experiment) in quantum physics that’s comparable to only telling the dealer the rules after the cards are dealt.
manwiththehex18 on
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” – Terry Pratchett
DickeyMcNakey on
I’m so broken by now that I read Einstein as Epstein
Fucking hell
EnergyHumble3613 on
Particles act like the potted Groot:
Unmoving on observation but unobserved just cutting a rug.
Realistic_Swan_6801 on
That or you have to defend some crazy non local theory, which is obviously a lot more improbable.
tengma8 on
people wildly misunderstand the concept of observation effect
the concept isn’t “the world know when you are watching it” it is more like “seeing something means your eyes would need to absorb some photons which will change how photons behaves”
IIIaustin on
Hi! I have a PhD in Materials science which included a fucking shitload of diffraction.
The physics in this meme is hot garbage. Thats not jow the (misnamed) observer effect works and diffraction doent have much to do with god playing dice with the Universe.
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Imagine being the smartest man alive and getting roasted by a couple of slits in a board.
“Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.” – _Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri_
I dont remember the exact way this worked but aren’t you supposed to explain the history behind your post
Honestly memes about the observer effect are always so obnoxious.
It’s not simply perceiving the experiment that changes the outcome. “Observing” means measuring here. Measuring requires interacting with the light particles.
What actually changes the outcome, is specifically the act of adding a detector to the slit itself (not the screen behind the double slot), so it can be clearly determined which slit the particle on passed through. This act of observing, aka measuring, requires the detector to interact with the particle in some way.
*This* is what collapses the interference pattern
Honestly, Bohr’s actual response is funnier than this meme.
‘You can’t tell God what to do with his dice’.
Funny, also true. Who’s to say an omnipotent weirdo wouldn’t randomly dick about with quantum nonsense. Both God and waveyparticles move in mysterious ways.
I like to extend the metaphor that Einstein’s version was that God plays with a loaded deck. There is [a class of experiments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_delayed-choice_experiment) in quantum physics that’s comparable to only telling the dealer the rules after the cards are dealt.
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” – Terry Pratchett
I’m so broken by now that I read Einstein as Epstein
Fucking hell
Particles act like the potted Groot:
Unmoving on observation but unobserved just cutting a rug.
That or you have to defend some crazy non local theory, which is obviously a lot more improbable.
people wildly misunderstand the concept of observation effect
the concept isn’t “the world know when you are watching it” it is more like “seeing something means your eyes would need to absorb some photons which will change how photons behaves”
Hi! I have a PhD in Materials science which included a fucking shitload of diffraction.
The physics in this meme is hot garbage. Thats not jow the (misnamed) observer effect works and diffraction doent have much to do with god playing dice with the Universe.
Bohr did wreck Einstein tho