"Zombie" Fly That is Both Dead and Alive-Real-life Schrödinger's Cat (Fly) Experiment

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  • Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2018
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    In this video I perform Schrodinger's cat experiment, but I actually do the experiment in real life. Except I don't use a cat, I use some fruit flies from my house. I put them in state of superposition by coupling the quantum state of radon with my vacuum chamber that turns on if there are more than 3 clicks per second in background radiation.
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Комментарии • 1,8 тыс.

  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  5 лет назад +378

    Hi everyone. I see a lot of comments comparing superposition to just simply not knowing a specific outcome. But it is not only that we don't know the outcome, but it HAS NO outcome until it is measured. This was proven in my previous video with polarizers showing how the photons have no polariziation until they are measured, it's not just that we don't know it.

    • @neelpetersen9893
      @neelpetersen9893 5 лет назад +3

      The Action Lab I love your pronounciation on Schrödinger😂❤️

    • @tribalrhino
      @tribalrhino 5 лет назад +8

      I love your videos. However, Your previous video did not prove anything about superpositioned photons (the first polarizer lets about 90% of the light through as it's darker than the white softbox screen, the second polarizer lets 100% of the light through that went through the first polarizer cuz it doesn't get darker until you change the direction. If it were superposition, you'd have some shirty electrons that refused to go through, like you 50/50 black/white testy box) but was a great way of explaining superposition, I'll probably use that :) I remember having a big discussion with my physics teacher about Schrodinger. If you listen for the drop of the bottle of poison, then without measuring the cat, you know its state (barring heart attack from something else or suffocation I guess). Or, if the detector made a ping noise... anyhow, my point is indirect measurement means that while *you* may not know what the state is, something does. I think you covered that at the end. Anyhow, in case you were wondering, I was allowed out of detention early cuz everyone loves a smartarse :)

    • @rickyrich1099
      @rickyrich1099 5 лет назад +8

      Indeed photons are quantum objects: meaning that the measure of their polarization has no outcome until you measure it, while the Cat (or the flies) are macroscopic objects, therefore your experiment has an outcome even before you measure it.

    • @PaulFred7
      @PaulFred7 5 лет назад +2

      I understand your point about superposition, but what you said about polarized light is false. There are plenty of things that emit polarized light without needing to "measure" it based on how you are using the word 'measure'.

    • @devlinmcguire7543
      @devlinmcguire7543 5 лет назад

      Why is it that you sound so much like Mat from PBS Spacetime when you said *"Shut up and calculate!"* ?

  • @theodorboon
    @theodorboon 5 лет назад +1934

    Schrödinger’s Cat
    WANTED
    Dead *and* Alive

    • @aragon2235
      @aragon2235 5 лет назад +27

      Good and relevant RDR2 reference. Good job.

    • @ethanhair1460
      @ethanhair1460 5 лет назад +18

      @@aragon2235 How is that a Star Wars reference?

    • @ethanhair1460
      @ethanhair1460 5 лет назад +9

      @Bob Ross That could be an anything reference

    • @youareanidiot855
      @youareanidiot855 5 лет назад +7

      Bob Ross
      That’s a nothing reference it’s a joke about the video

    • @ethanhair1460
      @ethanhair1460 5 лет назад +5

      @Bob Ross ... I misread that comment. My bad.

  • @ar00042
    @ar00042 5 лет назад +693

    Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar...
    And doesn’t....

    • @inthelimelight2680
      @inthelimelight2680 4 года назад +8

      Atharva Raje I’m not in the bar right now, and haven’t seen the cat, so I guess I’ll just have to find out

    • @dashalonmarrs1490
      @dashalonmarrs1490 4 года назад +1

      Atharva Raje this is my favorite comment of all time...

    • @nersie4699
      @nersie4699 4 года назад

      @@dashalonmarrs1490 its stolen

    • @eazy1726
      @eazy1726 4 года назад +2

      Stolen comment lol attention seekers will do anything to get attention

    • @ErenYeager-vt1uc
      @ErenYeager-vt1uc 3 года назад

      xD

  • @ZigZagsss
    @ZigZagsss 5 лет назад +364

    I didnt fart until you smell it

    • @fordtechchris
      @fordtechchris 5 лет назад +33

      But he who smelt it, dealt it.... So did you ever Fart?

    • @ZigZagsss
      @ZigZagsss 5 лет назад +24

      @@fordtechchris exactly, quantum mechanics

    • @esgow_
      @esgow_ 3 года назад +4

      But if they hear you fart

    • @flufferfluffierman
      @flufferfluffierman 3 года назад +11

      Shrödinger’s fart

    • @kalmkalm7924
      @kalmkalm7924 3 года назад

      @@flufferfluffierman oh ff

  • @mynameisJEFF-ym8vq
    @mynameisJEFF-ym8vq 5 лет назад +1153

    The moment when you drop your phone face down. Its both cracked and not cracked at the same time until you check

    • @PerfectDarkcontrol
      @PerfectDarkcontrol 5 лет назад +90

      that is actually a really good example^^

    • @eddysw8549
      @eddysw8549 5 лет назад +39

      Never thought of it like that. That’s a good example tho

    • @PeepingUkulele
      @PeepingUkulele 5 лет назад +3

      🤣

    • @athosiza4457
      @athosiza4457 5 лет назад +53

      it already cracked or didn't, either way you just haven't checked yet.

    • @kylerharris4246
      @kylerharris4246 5 лет назад +9

      What if you hear it crack after it falls but before you pick it up

  • @Billy123bobzzz
    @Billy123bobzzz 5 лет назад +691

    This video didn't exist until I watched it.

    • @EmdrGreg
      @EmdrGreg 5 лет назад +26

      Or-- it neither existed nor did it not exist?

    • @ethanhair1460
      @ethanhair1460 5 лет назад +1

      Exist*

    • @bizarrebread1512
      @bizarrebread1512 5 лет назад +8

      No it don't really work like that. Even if u didn't see it still exists because others saw this video there for it doesn't exist until someone saw it.

    • @Billy123bobzzz
      @Billy123bobzzz 5 лет назад +11

      @@bizarrebread1512 Yes it does, since I' the observer then everyone else is inside the box and are in superposition until I observe.

    • @alejrandom6592
      @alejrandom6592 5 лет назад

      @@bizarrebread1512 then cat cant be dead and alive

  • @aniruddhadas3606
    @aniruddhadas3606 5 лет назад +256

    *Schrödinger's cat to Schrödinger:*
    am i a joke to you.

  • @katcubed
    @katcubed 5 лет назад +133

    When my family leaves me home, I’m both dead and alive.

    • @SSADO-
      @SSADO- 3 года назад +12

      When you commented your comment, it was in a state of existing and not existing, until i saw it a year later to confirm it existed.

    • @lenziin_.13
      @lenziin_.13 3 года назад

      yup MORE ROBLOX PLAYERS MORE MORE
      me: e

    • @Kuirameto
      @Kuirameto 3 года назад

      WAIT HOW DID I FIND THIS THING HERE

    • @katcubed
      @katcubed 3 года назад

      @@Kuirameto bruh i dont even remember making this comment wtf u doin here

    • @Kuirameto
      @Kuirameto 3 года назад

      @@katcubed i was just watching science stuff because im interested in them wth

  • @ArkinMC
    @ArkinMC 5 лет назад +179

    The fascinating about quantum mechanics actually is: it makes sense and confuses at the same time.

    • @bruh____784
      @bruh____784 2 года назад +5

      Superposition.

    • @quantumzx6132
      @quantumzx6132 2 года назад +1

      yes my superposition* is quite fascinating

    • @awaywithwords9650
      @awaywithwords9650 2 года назад +2

      Logical ≠ Sensical

    • @MDG-mykys
      @MDG-mykys 2 года назад +1

      It makes sense but it shouldn't.

    • @LaserKatze
      @LaserKatze Год назад +4

      @@MDG-mykys it’s logical but doesn’t make sense, because you can’t be dead and alive at the same time

  • @SAIYANPRINCE777
    @SAIYANPRINCE777 5 лет назад +96

    Just like my homework until teacher checks it.

    • @seanleith5312
      @seanleith5312 3 года назад +2

      I can't believe we are talking about this kind of nonsense. If I want to hear this, I would talk to a psychiatrist.

    • @crazyOscar-gy8ul
      @crazyOscar-gy8ul 3 года назад

      XD

  • @killallbots1012
    @killallbots1012 5 лет назад +87

    5:25 I can see how disappointed he is that the fly did not die. lol

    • @spacemanspiff4985
      @spacemanspiff4985 4 года назад +4

      KillAllBots 101 “Fate *sigh* was in their favor”

    • @happyface4036
      @happyface4036 2 года назад

      Or he is not disappointed but we disappointed

  • @healwix
    @healwix 2 года назад +29

    Man, never end your RUclips career! You are making me so motivated to learn things that don't actually inspire me. Absolutely loving you and your videos.

  • @AlgoatAll
    @AlgoatAll 5 лет назад +240

    This one almost falls into philosophy territory

    • @jamastrollfingaz5496
      @jamastrollfingaz5496 5 лет назад +7

      Hyper theoretic philosophy.

    • @connorcriss
      @connorcriss 5 лет назад +2

      Adventist superposition is not something to study if you’re dumb

    • @connorcriss
      @connorcriss 5 лет назад +2

      Adventist Absurd doesn’t mean not real. Quantum mechanics is the only theory that is as strongly supported by science as the theory of relativity.

    • @connorcriss
      @connorcriss 5 лет назад +1

      Adventist On a macro level it _can_ work, but the problem is that there’s so many particles in something like a human that for it to have a superposition, every single particle would need to agree on that superposition, which is incredibly unlikely. The purpose of this experiment was to take smaller particles, like electrons from a radioactive substance, which can easily be in superposition, and have their position affect fruit flies on a macro scale. He did explain in the video at the end why it didn’t really work, and even if it hadn’t had the camera and the Geiger counter there would still be photons hitting the particles and measuring them. If he did it in a very dark room, and made the radioactive substance somehow kill the fruit flies directly, it could have worked.

    • @michakubisz535
      @michakubisz535 3 года назад

      All chemical reactions are actually measurements and collapses of quantum states. Does chemistry involve philosophy? :)

  • @user-bd2bk3kc7k
    @user-bd2bk3kc7k 5 лет назад +71

    Put a neutron star next to the fly

  • @lordlunacy6020
    @lordlunacy6020 5 лет назад +26

    If a tree poops in the woods does a bear still make a sound?

    • @dariusfilip4695
      @dariusfilip4695 3 года назад +1

      *what?*
      so if a TREE
      POOPS in the woods
      does A BEAR
      still MAKE A SOUND?
      explain to me

    • @alexy.9306
      @alexy.9306 3 года назад +1

      Wtf don't you mean if a tree falls over in the woods did it make a sound if no one was around to hear it?

    • @nevogolan6505
      @nevogolan6505 2 года назад +1

      If a tree pooped in the woods, how much would people pay to see genuine tree poop?

  • @arsarstarst
    @arsarstarst 5 лет назад +90

    It´s for saving RAM duh.. we all live in a simulation.

    • @priyanshugoel3030
      @priyanshugoel3030 5 лет назад +8

      That was what i proposed once too but i was segregated with flat earthers

    • @grantadamson3478
      @grantadamson3478 5 лет назад +1

      @@priyanshugoel3030 LOL

    • @ninxstation
      @ninxstation 5 лет назад +6

      That's some aggressive memory management. Probably we should stick more Ram sticks on the universe simulator god-computer.

    • @fib7615
      @fib7615 5 лет назад +1

      If we live in a simulation, does that mean the aliens controlling the simulator is also in a simulation?

    • @sohamsengupta6470
      @sohamsengupta6470 4 года назад

      Yeah loading all chunks takes too much time and processing power

  • @ProPlayer-wq3nu
    @ProPlayer-wq3nu 5 лет назад +354

    Your title choices are getting more and more confusing

    • @ivyistiredeepysleepy
      @ivyistiredeepysleepy 5 лет назад +1

      Agreed.
      +1

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 лет назад

      fly lives matter!!! reported for fly cruelty!!!

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 лет назад

      but the real question is: do flies feel pain? or even think consciously at all

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 лет назад

      @@Riskteven lol who doesnt know basic math?

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 лет назад

      @@Riskteven speculating on things that do not exist is insanity. just look at flat earthers

  • @dacoconutnut9503
    @dacoconutnut9503 5 лет назад +89

    Why is the butterfly not made with butter?

    • @thealientree3821
      @thealientree3821 5 лет назад +11

      Kowalski! Status report!

    • @tgnm9615
      @tgnm9615 5 лет назад +7

      Jordan Botelho323 kowalski analysis

    • @itssaad8663
      @itssaad8663 5 лет назад +3

      Wired flex , but ok

    • @Emily-me
      @Emily-me 5 лет назад +1

      People used to think that insect stole butter. Also one of the common species is a color that resembles that of butter.

    • @jennyeam399
      @jennyeam399 5 лет назад

      _report.exe_attempt_fixed.

  • @MammaOVlogs
    @MammaOVlogs 5 лет назад +203

    Wow! Amazing ! Now do this with real Zombies or do the zombies not become zombies til you make them zombies? Now l am confused!

    • @Brawlio13
      @Brawlio13 5 лет назад +3

      Momma O but... zombies are already dead and alive. Hence the living dead. So in theory... there would be no effect?

    • @NeoMetalKNIGHT
      @NeoMetalKNIGHT 5 лет назад +2

      Well not to mention but ... phisically dead inside doesn't mean to be dead in real life, it's not related to math and logic.
      Quantums are related to technologies and A.I.s, so this explain how an artificial intelligence could learn, think and autocorrect itself.
      The superposition in psychology could be like an ultra brain capable to go everywhere and stay on his own position without moving, like a ghost.
      Ps: So I imagine next time we will see an experiment about Ghosties and how to summon demons XD

    • @MammaOVlogs
      @MammaOVlogs 5 лет назад +1

      @@Brawlio13 lol so true

    • @MammaOVlogs
      @MammaOVlogs 5 лет назад +1

      @@NeoMetalKNIGHT whoa! now l really am confused lol

  • @brandond5441
    @brandond5441 5 лет назад +14

    You're dead or alive in a super position state until you're friends or family check on you lol.

    • @smokey04200420
      @smokey04200420 3 года назад

      You seem to be confused about this. It’s not dead or alive. It is both dead and alive. That is what superposition means.

  • @roshnelson4346
    @roshnelson4346 5 лет назад +38

    *has made a video of putting his hand in a vacuum chamber
    “okay today we are going to be getting a little bit crazy”

  • @MrDerp-cs9jh
    @MrDerp-cs9jh 5 лет назад +141

    Can I summon him?
    The Action Lab
    The Action Lab
    The Action Lab

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  5 лет назад +58

      Hi!

    • @ivyistiredeepysleepy
      @ivyistiredeepysleepy 5 лет назад +4

      @@TheActionLab HI SHISHTARSH

    • @nerdrulesu
      @nerdrulesu 5 лет назад +7

      holy !$#+ it worked

    • @devlinmcguire7543
      @devlinmcguire7543 5 лет назад +10

      @@TheActionLab We will build a weird shrine in you honor... It will be a gigantic vacuum chamber the size of a room.

    • @y33t23
      @y33t23 5 лет назад +2

      I wish that it would work, then I would summon him and replace all my teachers.

  • @minacapella8319
    @minacapella8319 2 года назад +8

    The thing I love most about quantum mechanics is stuff like how light changes how it behaves depending on observation.

  • @f4dy
    @f4dy 5 лет назад +7

    Please do more quantum mechanics videos like this! I'm an EE in my thirties, never did QM in school, so I never really had a clue about it. Your videos are finally making things understandable. Keep up the great work!

  • @yobittu7452
    @yobittu7452 5 лет назад +25

    Next Video Idea : Can you physically store sound in a box or container or in anything of some sort.

    • @joshuaosei5628
      @joshuaosei5628 5 лет назад +5

      Think of sound as vibrations. As long as the air particles are moving, there will be sound. So theoretically possible, but anything vibrating will pass its energy on, and eventually that energy will be transferred to the walls of its container, and then out of it.

    • @Scouderz
      @Scouderz 5 лет назад +1

      Kowalski, analysis

    • @xx_amongus_xx6987
      @xx_amongus_xx6987 5 лет назад +1

      @@joshuaosei5628 Making believe that the walls of the container will hold in any energy without absorbing it... would the sound vibrations' energy eventually fade away into nothing or?

    • @waveplasma1369
      @waveplasma1369 5 лет назад

      If the box lies within a perfect vacuum and is levitating, yes

    • @milesromanus7041
      @milesromanus7041 3 года назад +1

      @@joshuaosei5628 the speed of sound is variable, counting on the material, and temperature. I think it's possible to tinker the temperature and the material so that you can delay the time it takes for the sound waves to reach the walls of the box, no idea by how much though..

  • @elliottwalker8624
    @elliottwalker8624 5 лет назад +30

    The only thing that confuses me about the thought experiment- since you are using a living being (the cat, or in this case the fly), doesn't that mean that the state HAS been measured? The cat would be able to tell whether or not it's dead through its consciousness. I may just be looking at this wrong, so if someone wouldn't mind explaining it to me it would be much appreciated.

    • @hundenhugo1
      @hundenhugo1 5 лет назад +1

      Schrödinger assumes cats don't have an intelligent consciousness

    • @hundenhugo1
      @hundenhugo1 5 лет назад +7

      Nevermind I was proven wrong. Observation has nothing to do with consciousness but rather messurement. Sort of.

    • @edsilver
      @edsilver 5 лет назад +7

      This video is wrong. The flies are technically being observed by any light or particles hitting them. It does not have to be a person. The original Shrodingers cat is simply theoretical and relies on there not being anything in the box apart from a "cat" that has nothing happening inside it otherwise it would count as being observed. It is just a way of explaining it and demonstrates the difference between maths and physics and real life. I'm not hating on "The Action Lab", they make some good videos... this one is just s**t.

    • @PaulFred7
      @PaulFred7 5 лет назад +6

      Except he is completely mistaken because consciousness is not required at all for a measurement. All the atoms in the air colliding with the flies and photons hitting them are "measuring" them constantly at every moment.

    • @aaroncurtis8545
      @aaroncurtis8545 4 года назад +2

      He did address this issue. Like he said, it depends on your interpretation of qm.

  • @shade5554
    @shade5554 5 лет назад +34

    Radiation does not occur until you measure it?

    • @MeatBunFul
      @MeatBunFul 5 лет назад +13

      It does occur. It's just that the result is ambiguous untill measued.

    • @speed2574
      @speed2574 5 лет назад +1

      That means the radiation was in a super position till he measured it..

    • @minsukseo
      @minsukseo 5 лет назад

      may or may not radiate until observe it

    • @djhuntsman7504
      @djhuntsman7504 5 лет назад

      So as long as I don't measure radiation it's not harmful because it hasn't been measured and proven deadly?

    • @wiretamer5710
      @wiretamer5710 5 лет назад +7

      Assume you know the exact number of unstable atoms in the experiment.
      You can know the exact rate of decay in theory. You can know how exactly how long it will take for half of the atoms to decay, but you can never know in what chronological order each atom will decay.
      This may sound intuitive and logical UNTIL you really understand that the half life of any radioactive element is a constant.
      If the decay of individual atoms is random, what is to stop all of them decaying in bunches, or all at once?
      For the half life to be a constant period of time, the individual atoms have to 'wait their turn' to decay, so no jumping the cue. So how does an atom 'know' when to decay?
      Take two (sub-critical) quantities of the same radioactive material and put them together in a container. Providing the collective mass remains sub critical, the rate of atomic decay WILL NOT CHANGE. WTF?
      You have changed the total number of atoms, the rate of decay remains the same, the half life of the material remains the same? WTF?
      Its not like adding more water to a bucket of water with a hole in it.
      Quantum theory is odd...

  • @playsparkanims6540
    @playsparkanims6540 5 лет назад +10

    The shrodinger cat is sleeping
    But it's awake

  • @KnightSlasher
    @KnightSlasher 5 лет назад +83

    Will it eat meh brain

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  5 лет назад +25

      Yes, I let it go. It will find you. And it will eat your brain

    • @timoking7650
      @timoking7650 5 лет назад +3

      No cause you dont have any

    • @duckguide4109
      @duckguide4109 5 лет назад +1

      No, cause you don’t got one 😂 😂

    • @ChallengeTheNarrative
      @ChallengeTheNarrative 5 лет назад

      @@duckguide4109 *haven't

    • @duckguide4109
      @duckguide4109 5 лет назад +2

      Pseudo Nym Ik, I purposely said it the way I did...

  • @wolfiegames2442
    @wolfiegames2442 5 лет назад +290

    I just can't understand this RUclips channel anymore.
    But it's still the best, I dunno
    Edit: stop paying attention to my comment oh my goD

    • @klinky
      @klinky 5 лет назад +24

      It's the best and the worst at the same time...

    • @randylock2058
      @randylock2058 5 лет назад +13

      I agree, I am totally lost with this concept. I feel like this is when hes going to start advertising Scientology.

    • @bizarrebread1512
      @bizarrebread1512 5 лет назад +4

      This is basically about you not knowing if a thing is dead or not and that's the experiment

    • @hiru92
      @hiru92 5 лет назад +2

      its quantum machenics ...

    • @DaP84
      @DaP84 5 лет назад +6

      Crispy Memez nope, it's much more deep than that! It's about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device.
      Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: ruclips.net/video/DfPeprQ7oGc/видео.html

  • @ADRENERGlC
    @ADRENERGlC 5 лет назад +17

    *This could be straight from a jigsaw movie!*

  • @ThatShyGuyMatt
    @ThatShyGuyMatt 5 лет назад +7

    I'm near 40 and the cat thing never made sense to me until now. You explained it in easy terms. Mind blown!

  • @jayfunk13
    @jayfunk13 5 лет назад +72

    Until you use a real cat this experiment is not valid. I volunteer my girlfriends cat

  • @raypimienta7670
    @raypimienta7670 5 лет назад +8

    is this were "curiosity killed the cat" came from

  • @lampion4490
    @lampion4490 5 лет назад +2

    I love these experiments! Always interesting to watch! :)

  • @juicer2688
    @juicer2688 5 лет назад +5

    It’s, ironically, insane how you can talk for 15 mins about how something is dead and alive at the same time and not be called crazy

  • @TechnoEstate
    @TechnoEstate 5 лет назад +3

    So it's basically the good ol' "When a tree falls in the woods, and no one's / nothing's there to detect it, does it make a sound (and does it even actually fall)?"

  • @spawnofsatan1796
    @spawnofsatan1796 5 лет назад +89

    16 seconds ago? Really? This early? Or is my youtube broken?

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  5 лет назад +32

      You are just that awesome!

    • @Rowdy106
      @Rowdy106 5 лет назад +6

      Oof

    • @draketungsten74
      @draketungsten74 5 лет назад +10

      It wasn't posted until you observed it.

    • @JaDo426
      @JaDo426 5 лет назад +6

      @@draketungsten74 yeah the video was in a state of superposition

  • @Dumbc0mment
    @Dumbc0mment 5 лет назад

    Every time I watch your videos, when you explain something I feel like you have a pain somewhere, feel like you're tense, like you're going to cry at any time. It's not a criticism, in fact I find it funny :) and I like your channel

  • @TheIcy001
    @TheIcy001 5 лет назад +1

    A popular theory I like is that the state of your brain is also a quantum state and in fact, nothing is being collapsed at all when you measure; it is your brain's quantum state that is being entangled with the object's state.

  • @rickyrich1099
    @rickyrich1099 5 лет назад +3

    Actually Shrödinger introduced the Cat experiment in order to show how the superposition theory resulted paradoxical when applied to macro objects. Indeed the cat is dead or alive every moment before the measurement and when you open the box you just find out if it died or not, it is not you forcing the Cat to choose one state or the other. The superposition of states works just fine in quantum objects experiments like the double slit, where if you don't measure which slit the particle is passing through, it just goes through both of them.
    Nice video as always, keep it up man.

  • @theblackreaper4395
    @theblackreaper4395 5 лет назад +7

    My brain is in a superposition of confusion and fascination

  • @BharathinfinityHegde
    @BharathinfinityHegde 5 лет назад

    I like this video more than I normally l like your videos because of that bit of explanation in the end, which was interesting and simpler than most I've heard about this topic and you showed your face instead of your hand while talking/explaining.

  • @viankhan7969
    @viankhan7969 2 года назад

    Thanks sir for clearing my concept on this theory now I can read further about other paradox

  • @Noah_7s
    @Noah_7s 5 лет назад +5

    I watched this video with a fly in my room

    • @markmartin3152
      @markmartin3152 4 года назад

      Did you hear this fly or actually see it?

  • @nossonweissman
    @nossonweissman 5 лет назад +9

    "Fate was in their favor" xD

  • @matiasvillarreal6207
    @matiasvillarreal6207 5 лет назад

    I'm learning slowly about this topic and is awesome. Thanks!

  • @saladladds8203
    @saladladds8203 5 лет назад +2

    I love how at the beginning it goes through the whole process of "the material decays and knocks over the acid and then kills the cat" like is this rube goldberg or something?

  • @KurumiZph
    @KurumiZph 5 лет назад +5

    Next video: how to turn your tv remote into interdimensional passage

  • @jensphiliphohmann1876
    @jensphiliphohmann1876 5 лет назад +3

    I think the 'a human must look at it to collapse the state' - interpretation at least hits the border to quantum esoterics.
    There is surprisingly am indirect test of that hypothesis by a phenomenon called the quantum Zeno effect.
    This is based on the fact that the probabilities for the alternative outcomes don't develop linearly, thus being the first of them overproportionally more likely than the second for some time. Observation thus kinda turns back the clock.
    In radioactivity, this doesn't seem to work but rather a kind of anti-Zeno-effect is said to occur which means that the 'decayed' - state must quickly be the more likely one.

  • @ftlPhysicsGuy
    @ftlPhysicsGuy 5 лет назад +1

    I find one of the most interesting conclusion of this thought experiment is that *I* have no idea if anything else is in a state of "non-superposition" until *I* observer it. If you observe the results of an experiment and come to tell me, then until you tell me, I can think of you as being in a state of superposition yourself (with each version having observed a different result of the experiment). The flies don't have to collapse the wave function, you don't have to collapse the wave function, but once you tell me, then and only then do I know the wave function has collapsed. But each of us can make that same claim, so we could each claim to be the one and only being who collapses all wave functions in the universe. Gotta love QM.

  • @electriccheese5373
    @electriccheese5373 5 лет назад

    Dude, it is weird, because O remember a few months ago when you only had 200,00 subscribers or so, I just realized how fast this channel has grown

  • @jxyndz6303
    @jxyndz6303 5 лет назад +5

    Who remembers when action lab was hydraulic press action?

  • @aaryankhairnar69
    @aaryankhairnar69 5 лет назад +14

    when you observe it the universe splits into two where in one the fly is alive and in other it's dead
    that's called parallel universes

    • @joeferdin9871
      @joeferdin9871 3 года назад

      So the outcome basically decides two different storylines...?

    • @aaryankhairnar69
      @aaryankhairnar69 3 года назад

      @@joeferdin9871 yeah kinda

    • @joeferdin9871
      @joeferdin9871 3 года назад

      @@aaryankhairnar69 But that's impossible:/

    • @aaryankhairnar69
      @aaryankhairnar69 3 года назад

      @@joeferdin9871 yeah it's a hypothesis

  • @eljamos7629
    @eljamos7629 5 лет назад

    Just subbed! way to go mate!

  • @johnzorkon3540
    @johnzorkon3540 Месяц назад

    You realize of course, that this is just a reworked version of the old adage: if a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it does it make a sound

  • @hqcart1
    @hqcart1 5 лет назад +10

    I have never met you, so, YOU ARE DEAD AND ALIVE. until we meet, i'll measure you!

    • @PRGME7
      @PRGME7 2 месяца назад

      Right back at you! 😇

  • @IStMl
    @IStMl 5 лет назад +40

    Am I the only one that didn’t get it ?

    • @fabiuskleemann2184
      @fabiuskleemann2184 5 лет назад +4

      It´s like your hair you dont know in wich position it is until you check on it in a mirror. so it can be to the left or to the right, but you wont know what it is until you check it either with your hand or as said, a mirror. (sorry for my english)

    • @mamupelu565
      @mamupelu565 5 лет назад +1

      I guess no one gets it

    • @Marko_Djuricic
      @Marko_Djuricic 5 лет назад +7

      Someone wrote a really good example: When you drop your phone, it's in a state of superposition (broken and not broken at the same time) from your point of view, until you measure it (pick it up and see the result).

    • @bizarrebread1512
      @bizarrebread1512 5 лет назад +1

      I got it

    • @DaP84
      @DaP84 5 лет назад +2

      It's about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device.Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: ruclips.net/video/DfPeprQ7oGc/видео.html

  • @BallistikaGames
    @BallistikaGames 5 лет назад

    This video really struck my fancy. I love his explanation in this video

  • @eagle3676
    @eagle3676 5 лет назад

    Measurement(observation or interaction) is actually just the light hitting the flies or particles colliding with them. That's why quantum mechanics is thought of as small scale. But in reality it's how well hidden you keep something so that no interaction occurs. And that happens a lot easier and more frequent in micro-scales

  • @aaroncurtis8545
    @aaroncurtis8545 4 года назад +3

    That was well presented; as are all your videos. But I came to say; Wow! Someone that really knows physics actually explained Why consciousness gets brought up in this context. That's much appreciated by me anyways.

  • @Meiabell
    @Meiabell 5 лет назад +12

    So suspended state until observed. AND Quantum Physics also says that observation alters what is being observed. What does it mean?

    • @PerfectDarkcontrol
      @PerfectDarkcontrol 5 лет назад +4

      That is another problem, when working in a scale of nanometers and below. Imagine u want to measure the speed of a particle. How to measure it if even light would influence it? As soon as u measure it u alter the measurement. At example, u want to measure the speed of wind with a rotor. The wind is moving with a definite tempo, but as soon as it hits upon the rotor, it will lose it's speed, so u did't got the actual speed. Although this influence is minimal and can be ignored in the measurement of the wind, in the world of nanometers this influence makes a great impact on the results.
      I hope that was understandable, english is not my native language.

    • @japneelsingh2
      @japneelsingh2 5 лет назад

      @@PerfectDarkcontrol so measurements are not the true nature that we seek but the altered nature due to our curiosity and interference.
      What will we call this measurement then?

    • @SC-zq6cu
      @SC-zq6cu 5 лет назад

      @@japneelsingh2
      Nearest answer

    • @japneelsingh2
      @japneelsingh2 5 лет назад

      @@SC-zq6cu that is appropriate lol but what is the real answer called then

    • @SC-zq6cu
      @SC-zq6cu 5 лет назад

      @@japneelsingh2
      Real answer

  • @njcwolf4654
    @njcwolf4654 5 лет назад +1

    You know, your titles are always kinda clickbaity, but your videos never fail to entertain me. So it's like, I can't even be mad.

  • @RealPatrical
    @RealPatrical 5 лет назад

    The preasure measuring device was left on your vacum there for it was also measured with that and couldnt you have just looked at it to see a difference in pressure when you came back

  • @phizicks
    @phizicks 5 лет назад +3

    I think everything is measuring it. even empty space with quantum fluctuations affects the measurement

  • @FarazAli-sq7hr
    @FarazAli-sq7hr 5 лет назад +7

    Make video on Young's double slit experiment

  • @dhruvaswamy3416
    @dhruvaswamy3416 4 года назад

    U r gr8 , the way u explain its very understanding......

  • @DB-lo9jp
    @DB-lo9jp 5 лет назад

    Very interesting. My knowledge is in a state of understanding and confusion. I will not know which it is until my brain can catch up to your video.

  • @TheExtraleague
    @TheExtraleague 5 лет назад +20

    "The entire universe that didn't actually exist in real state until conscientious being be able to absorb it" ... yea we call it "rendering texture" or "spawning" in our created IT universe :D

    • @peksn
      @peksn 3 года назад

      @Hooda the Antagonist wdym it obviously does

    • @peksn
      @peksn 3 года назад

      @Hooda the Antagonist damn didn't even see that lol

  • @RalphDratman
    @RalphDratman 5 лет назад +5

    The superposition was only resolved when I watched this video, obviously. Until then the flies and the geiger counter and you and the video data bits were all in a superposition of dead vs alive flies. And of course each of us viewers resolved the superposition independently, so some of us saw you announce that the flies were alive while the others saw you say the flies were dead. In my reality your flies were alive. I hope you count the occurrences of viewers reporting dead or alive flies so we can finally get the results of this experiment.

    • @sophiaschier-hanson4163
      @sophiaschier-hanson4163 2 года назад +1

      This sounds suspiciously like the Wigner's Friend thought experiment. Whoa, dude!

    • @sayanghosh8352
      @sayanghosh8352 2 года назад

      Dead

    • @RalphDratman
      @RalphDratman Год назад

      @@sophiaschier-hanson4163 I may or may not be Wigner's anonymous friend.
      He (or she) was not named -- for privacy, of course.

  • @Name-js5uq
    @Name-js5uq 5 лет назад

    Wow that was intense and I loved every bit of it and I understood it too.

  • @estherling8435
    @estherling8435 4 года назад

    Thanks. I actually understood it better now

  • @jacopocarboncini5712
    @jacopocarboncini5712 5 лет назад +11

    Man, your eyes are so close that they are becoming a singularity

  • @wermthewerm
    @wermthewerm 5 лет назад +30

    I summon you action lab!
    The Action Lab
    The Action Lab
    The Action Lab

  • @RationalSaneThinker
    @RationalSaneThinker 11 месяцев назад

    0:50 My only complaint of this fantastic video is that he uses a "steel cage." The cage wouldn't work because you can see what's inside. For the experiment to work, you can't see what's inside. Also a cage would allow the gas to escape, not necessarily killing the cat even if the particle decayed.

  • @GMR.24
    @GMR.24 5 лет назад

    I'm truly stumped. Because you explained it so well in the superposition video. There it was very black and white (black or white?) and made sense. But then carry the same method over here to a cat or a fly in a box, and then things get all crazy in my brain. When I try to relate the two, I can, but then I can't! It's very confusing!

  • @Gary_Gamer
    @Gary_Gamer 5 лет назад +4

    Teen Titans go explained this to me so I feel prepared

  • @fjeezy1305
    @fjeezy1305 3 года назад +4

    Years ago after thinking about this for a while, the thought occurred to me...
    Maybe much like a computer program, existence also has every possibility written into its “code”, but the user only uses (or experiences) the parts of the program that are executed while they are running it.
    Like when i wake up, im in a superposition of staying in bed or getting up. Since both actions are possible, both are real, or written into the “code” of the universe. Both happened/are happening/will happen. If that makes sense lol.
    Just the thoughts of a random layperson 😂

  • @toosas
    @toosas 5 лет назад

    a human is not required to collapse the wave function. We do not have a method to detect a particle's state without interacting with it (a device being able to detect it is needed). Measuring collapses the wave function by interacting with the particle

  • @arpitkumar4525
    @arpitkumar4525 5 лет назад +1

    "Shut up and calculate!" My favorite quote now.

  • @mrflippy3578
    @mrflippy3578 5 лет назад +6

    You feel like a genius when you actually understand these things.

  • @FarazAli-sq7hr
    @FarazAli-sq7hr 5 лет назад +3

    Quantum mechanics is more confusing, mysterious and interesting

  • @motnosniv
    @motnosniv 5 лет назад +1

    What do you call a fly with no wings?
    A walk. Bwaha haha!

  • @seastilton7912
    @seastilton7912 5 лет назад

    One time in Maths we were learning about mutually exclusive events and the teacher used he example of being dead and alive. The wave of Schrödinger was merciless.

  • @loess4616
    @loess4616 5 лет назад +3

    coat the inside of a bottle with never wet and fill it up

    • @loess4616
      @loess4616 5 лет назад

      like so he can see

  • @speed2574
    @speed2574 5 лет назад +8

    I have a suggestion....
    Take 2 polarizers and place them crosswise on a sheet of glass so that no photons could emit....
    Then shine that 32000 lumen flash light or 5w laser drom the pther side yo see if the polarizers gets glow....
    This is gonna Be cool. Try it pleaseeee!!!!!.....☺😊

  • @ogge8375
    @ogge8375 5 лет назад

    Actually i think that the fly is in a superposition of dead or alive until you check it for you. But it still is in this superposition for another person that would have been there at the start of the experiment and not wasnt there when you checked.

  • @tsmith906
    @tsmith906 2 года назад

    My mind always jumps directly to simulation theory when i hear this

  • @Lonewolf-
    @Lonewolf- 5 лет назад +5

    Hit like those who didn't understand but watched the full video 😂

  • @jacopo.mazzei
    @jacopo.mazzei 5 лет назад +4

    You made lots of videos about blackest black but what about whitest White?

  • @yoihenmais7013
    @yoihenmais7013 5 лет назад

    Great points sir... 👌 It would be great if there are some mathematical equations to explain ,so that the equations and the stories goes hand in hand with our understanding

  • @victherocker
    @victherocker 5 лет назад

    "Shut up and calculate" should be a motto for anyone who tend to overthink problems like me

  • @jimstanton4535
    @jimstanton4535 5 лет назад +6

    WOW!!! .... Schrodinger became famous for Publicly Tormenting his flea bitten cat.
    Nobody even reported him to the Humane Society for this act of cruelty. How sad!!!

  • @ahmed38247
    @ahmed38247 5 лет назад +7

    It wasnt dead and alive..
    Check this.. lets say u put the fly in a box and measure the amount of oxygen and then u do tge experiment for 1 hour then come back and find out the fly is dead when u measure it and before that it was dead and alive at the same time then the amount of oxygen would have been almost gone completely (bcoz it was dead and alive for 1h breathing) but what u found out is the oxygen is the same amount (bcoz it was ONLY dead when u left it and it wasnt alive to breath in oxygen)
    I have a serious question.. when u say an intelligent being have to measure the expirment (like the example of the universe) could that be god?

    • @toasterforsale5069
      @toasterforsale5069 5 лет назад +1

      1000 vids no subscribers A better example is dropping your phone, when it’s midair from your POV it’s in a state of superpositiom, you don’t know if it’s broken until you pick it up

    • @DaP84
      @DaP84 5 лет назад +1

      No, this is about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device.Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: ruclips.net/video/DfPeprQ7oGc/видео.html

    • @ahmed38247
      @ahmed38247 5 лет назад

      @@DaP84 then its probably always being measured bcoz the fly's state of being dead or alive affects the future and thats why we can tell what happened in the past was REAL and it did happen by the modern state of an object.. unless both circumstances were actually running at the same time and one of them disappears once they're measured.. so according to that, can we say that the universe was created in a REAL state once we discovered that? And before that it was in a superposition state?

    • @HidekiShinichi
      @HidekiShinichi 5 лет назад

      1000 vids no subscribers it would be god so different from any idea of god we have here eight now that you probably would not call it god

  • @falazarte
    @falazarte 5 лет назад

    Best explanation ever!

  • @Saifuddin-mb6rx
    @Saifuddin-mb6rx 5 лет назад

    I don't understand any of your videos... Yet i click it as soon as i get the notification from your channel😂

  • @BobMcCoy
    @BobMcCoy 5 лет назад +6

    *_weird flex, but ok_*

  • @davidprodigy5833
    @davidprodigy5833 5 лет назад +13

    Plants vs Zombies

  • @hagmoi737
    @hagmoi737 2 года назад +1

    Imagine just trying to find food and live a normal fruit fly’s life then you got caught into the hand of a crazy scientist and got put into a superposition

  • @neutronenstern.
    @neutronenstern. 3 года назад

    Def Mesurement: If a transmission Particle of the thing that has to be mesuered hits anything and thus creates some kind of reaction (eg. Photon hits fly, gets reflected and then hits wall and gets absorbed=> heat=> mesurement (wall is measuring it).