Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel

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  • Опубликовано: 5 янв 2025

Комментарии • 9 тыс.

  • @tomalmog8738
    @tomalmog8738 5 лет назад +4183

    "To be or not to be, that is the question" - Schrödinger's cat

  • @nickc.4070
    @nickc.4070 7 лет назад +10697

    schrödinger: doctor, how is my cat doing?
    doctor: i've got good news and bad news...

  • @varvaramir
    @varvaramir 2 года назад +9292

    I love how schrodinger discovered the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and then just went "this is bs, im doing biology now"

    • @mikemondano3624
      @mikemondano3624 2 года назад +411

      As you advance in any field, the boundaries between them start to frazzle and knowledge and interest become monolithic. He never changed subjects, just focus.

    • @sagwan6991
      @sagwan6991 2 года назад +2

      most of science is just bs that just makes the most sense of all the sea of bs

    • @cowllama1353
      @cowllama1353 Год назад +16

      Valid

    • @Listereen
      @Listereen Год назад +4

      bababoeey whats bs

    • @duckduckshoes6393
      @duckduckshoes6393 Год назад +13

      Not true cat actually makes sound from time to time so if you woudl stand close to the box you would know wheter the cat is dead or alive, no superposition.

  • @grandpastories1483
    @grandpastories1483 2 года назад +495

    "I don't know if the *cat* is dead or alive until I open the box"
    "Meow"
    "Shut up"

    • @ggnishvanth3467
      @ggnishvanth3467 5 месяцев назад +21

      Underrated, That is actually smart

    • @ItzBluh
      @ItzBluh 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@ggnishvanth34672yrs ago 😅

    • @silentkiller1412
      @silentkiller1412 5 месяцев назад

      Read this in Jeremy Clarkson's voice

    • @Tsundoku_xX
      @Tsundoku_xX 4 месяца назад

      @@silentkiller1412 OMG STOP THATS SO FIRE NO

    • @vedanirvana111
      @vedanirvana111 4 месяца назад

      lmao, not nice

  • @noahquiles5791
    @noahquiles5791 4 года назад +5858

    Shakespeare: “To be or not to be...”
    Schrodinger: “To be and* not to be...”

    • @deus2570
      @deus2570 4 года назад +134

      Schrodinger: "To be or not to be" *and I took that personally*

    • @alchemist2048
      @alchemist2048 4 года назад +118

      Scooby : Dobeedoobeedoo

    • @Anonymous-kw7ls
      @Anonymous-kw7ls 3 года назад +10

      @@alchemist2048
      😂😂😂

    • @aditya-rt4zb
      @aditya-rt4zb 3 года назад +28

      answer of every great question is a paradox

    • @mars9842
      @mars9842 3 года назад +2

      @@aditya-rt4zb almost like everything and its opposite exist

  • @nebulaanishh
    @nebulaanishh 5 лет назад +23068

    Your crush actually likes you and doesn't like you at the same time, until your curiosity makes you approach her.

    • @farwakhan4423
      @farwakhan4423 5 лет назад +3135

      ... then she rejects you and you're dead inside while being alive

    • @GAMINGWITHCHINAR
      @GAMINGWITHCHINAR 5 лет назад +843

      Hmmm.... I was not able to understand the video ... Until I saw this comment ... Thnx btw

    • @jumanahidris2973
      @jumanahidris2973 5 лет назад +79

      Nice!

    • @aarambhverma1550
      @aarambhverma1550 5 лет назад +368

      Oh man! You really made the concept very easy! True genius exists here! Love you brother!😁😁

    • @jumanahidris2973
      @jumanahidris2973 5 лет назад +71

      @peeps hi whyever not?

  • @thatguitardude4307
    @thatguitardude4307 5 лет назад +6228

    Me: So, is the cat alive?
    Schrödinger: Well yes, but actually no.

  • @katia7440
    @katia7440 2 года назад +1270

    You could show me this video like 10times and even if i payed real attention to it i could never understand it to the point where i would be able to explain it to someone. This is beyond the intellectual skills i could ever conquer in my whole life.

    • @peeter07
      @peeter07 Год назад +74

      The reason why you should be afraid of physics and chemistry

    • @safaeit
      @safaeit Год назад +106

      I heard one famous scientist said if you find science boring, you’re learning from the wrong teacher. It’s either he doesn’t want you to learn or he doesn’t fully understand himself, explaining like an AI.

    • @finixmoon127
      @finixmoon127 Год назад +42

      ​@@safaeit This isn't about finding science boring (well perhaps for this person it might be), it's about understanding it

    • @theyylove.L
      @theyylove.L Год назад +9

      I really dont understand intellectual but ok

    • @GRT999
      @GRT999 Год назад +54

      In fairness it's dumbed down to the point it forgets to explain anything

  • @Shereigna
    @Shereigna 4 года назад +4183

    Schrödinger’s Cat walked into a bar.
    and doesn’t.

  • @solutionghostsimple6470
    @solutionghostsimple6470 5 лет назад +5411

    Wanted Schrödinger's cat : Dead and Alive

  • @johnyboy228
    @johnyboy228 3 года назад +8498

    Everybody at schrodinger’s funeral: *hmmm*

    • @frazzydoof770
      @frazzydoof770 3 года назад +623

      both dead and alive until the casket is opened

    • @ureehueurv
      @ureehueurv 3 года назад +166

      *DUN DUN DUUUUN*

    • @greenlite37
      @greenlite37 3 года назад +393

      Schrodinger:I don't know if cat is dead or alive
      Cat:meow!
      Schrodinger:shut up!

    • @hydro3672
      @hydro3672 3 года назад +73

      @@frazzydoof770 technically since he did not die in the box this is not correct let me explain he was dead before hand so he would not have a chance to be alive if the box is opened there is only one outcome in that instance also his funeral was open casket so no schrodinger's cat theory was used on the funeral but you didn't know that so technically this was a schrodinger's cat theory example his funeral had a 50% chance of being open casket and a 50% chance of not me telling you it was opens the box to find your cat alive glad i saw your comment made me exercise my brain a bit 😁

    • @D2AIN
      @D2AIN 3 года назад +28

      @@hydro3672 It's a joke, but wow, that's a good way to exercise a brain.

  • @JustSomeDinosaurPerson
    @JustSomeDinosaurPerson 2 года назад +2763

    A lot of people in the comments are missing the point. The point isn't "we don't know until we open the box". The point is that the cat IS both alive and dead until we open the box, which forces it into a definite state of one or the other.
    The point is that our interaction (which is a placeholder for measurements in physics) influences the outcome and changes the behavior of the entity being interacted with/measured into a definite state.

    • @niyaziaktn1596
      @niyaziaktn1596 2 года назад +39

      So is the cat ded or alive? Am damb

    • @Skanda1111
      @Skanda1111 2 года назад +70

      Thanks. Your comment made it very easy to understand.

    • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
      @Rspknlikeab0ssxd 2 года назад +202

      Forgive me but I've always been very confused about Schrodinger's Cat. How can something be both dead, and alive, simultaneously? If, to be alive, we must be consciously aware, have a heartbeat, etc., how can it be that we both have and lack consciousness, a pulse, and the like experiences? Schrodinger stipulates in his thought experiment that there is a 50 percent chance that the cat will be alive after the hour, and a fifty percent chance that it won't be alive after an hour. How does our interaction influence the outcome of the scenario? It seems to me that whether or not the cat is alive or dead is not ontologically significant. The cat's being alive is only epistemically significant, it seems to me. By that I mean that whether or not we observe the cat makes no difference as to whether or not the cat is dead or alive. It only matters insofar as we can *know* that the cat is dead, or alive. Is this not the case? And, if Schrodinger's Cat is only epistemically significant, why is that point not emphasized? It seems they threaten the fallacy of equivocation by not specifiying.
      Maybe I'm just missing the point. I don't pretend to be well-understood insofar as science is concerned (let alone a physicist), and I admire those who are. I would appreciate someone simplifying the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment to the level of a child, while retaining its precise meaning, for me.

    • @jinolin9062
      @jinolin9062 2 года назад +167

      @@Rspknlikeab0ssxd the thought experiment is not about the cat but the fact that until we directly observe the object, the object is it two states at once when talking about quantum mechanics as far as I understand it. The cat could just as easily be a coin with a machine that flips it inside the box. Is the coin on heads or tails? No, the coin is one ~both~ heads & tails until we observe it according to quantum mechanics.

    • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
      @Rspknlikeab0ssxd 2 года назад +61

      @@jinolin9062 So then, as I am understanding what you're saying, quantum mechanics is inconsistent on logical grounds. For, it is inconsistent for something to be both alive and dead, heads and tails, be or not be, yes and no, etc. simultaneously.

  • @caytlin100
    @caytlin100 5 лет назад +5557

    My mom: you room is a mess
    Me: mom, that’s the superposition of the atoms. Until you opened the door my room was a non existence state. So is a mess and is clean at the same time.
    My mom:

    • @kathy582
      @kathy582 5 лет назад +457

      caytlin100 my mom: smacks the superposition out of me😂😂😂

    • @jc.maccount5945
      @jc.maccount5945 5 лет назад +79

      You have future kid 😂

    • @alexmercer6585
      @alexmercer6585 5 лет назад +105

      Mom response :👊👊👊🖐👊

    • @revelbangtanexo2642
      @revelbangtanexo2642 5 лет назад +15

      😂😂 lmaoooo

    • @thanhcongnguyen181
      @thanhcongnguyen181 5 лет назад +52

      Your mom: no internet for the rest of your life and 24/7 grounded

  • @dogl0ver03
    @dogl0ver03 8 лет назад +27678

    so if you open the box and the cat is dead, then your curiosity killed the cat

    • @vik24oct1991
      @vik24oct1991 8 лет назад +898

      It is not like that , it is more like , the cat is already dead and alive but you are able to see one of them.

    • @AiNaKa
      @AiNaKa 8 лет назад +1608

      The joke
      Your head

    • @zachzent8287
      @zachzent8287 8 лет назад +406

      Renee Claude My dog is named Curiosity

    • @saintpluto5613
      @saintpluto5613 8 лет назад +318

      Even if you dont look, its either dead or alive so for instance if you dont look and its dead you just never know but its dead anyway. I mean our observation wont determine the cats situation right? That takes place anyway wether we look or we dont look.

    • @Kebabrulle4869
      @Kebabrulle4869 8 лет назад +136

      Or, y'know,
      The curiosity killed *your* cat

  • @SebNeverMiss
    @SebNeverMiss 3 года назад +12479

    Schrodinger: there is no way that you can tell if the cat is alive or dead without opening the box
    Cat: *meow*
    Schrödinger: ...

  • @aditisharma66
    @aditisharma66 Год назад +205

    Let's appreciate the quality of animation used to design and explain quantum mechanics in a better way. It's extremely helpful for all the students studying it in academics. Good job :)

  • @simonc7221
    @simonc7221 4 года назад +20924

    This is like the mystery of wether or not the refrigerator light stays on when the door is closed

    • @mariafe7050
      @mariafe7050 4 года назад +2028

      It's on AND off until you open the door.

    • @mr.knightthedetective7435
      @mr.knightthedetective7435 4 года назад +980

      It's off because when you close it it hits the button at closing angle...

    • @walterblanchard2092
      @walterblanchard2092 4 года назад +102

      Schroeder cat poem

    • @carolinedelafuente7251
      @carolinedelafuente7251 4 года назад +584

      Me as a kid. I would peek and close the fridge door very slowly until I realized there's an actual switch🤦‍♀️

    • @abhijeetchouhan5949
      @abhijeetchouhan5949 4 года назад +201

      @@mr.knightthedetective7435 r/woooooosh

  • @arandomjoe9749
    @arandomjoe9749 3 года назад +8867

    Is schrödinger trying to explain “I don’t know” with science

    • @watertommyz
      @watertommyz 3 года назад +671

      Yesnt

    • @Di00rt
      @Di00rt 3 года назад +282

      This is so easy, he just made a logical thing into something very scientific

    • @adoritowithlegs6468
      @adoritowithlegs6468 3 года назад +282

      the answer is yes and no at the same time. The only way to find the reality is to go and ask him.

    • @RealNiggaKazutoKirigaiTheThird
      @RealNiggaKazutoKirigaiTheThird 3 года назад +24

      @@watertommyz I hate you 😂

    • @whotfdidthis
      @whotfdidthis 3 года назад +6

      damn fr!

  • @wan8234
    @wan8234 4 года назад +1648

    Schrödinger: did you die?
    Schrödinger's cat : yes.
    Schrödinger's cat : *But I Lived!*

    • @lgitsx9665
      @lgitsx9665 4 года назад +25

      @@luciawilliamson-waggoner3369
      . . . .
      That's the joke

    • @bobthetomato7005
      @bobthetomato7005 4 года назад

      BUT I SURVIVED

    • @CEO_of_Kostco
      @CEO_of_Kostco 4 года назад

      Didn’t think I would see you here, Major

    • @anthonyl6060
      @anthonyl6060 4 года назад

      James G Atleast I know where the meme came from

    • @manali6402
      @manali6402 4 года назад

      I died and I survived

  •  Год назад +84

    I would love a video on Schrödinger's "What is life?" answer. The definition he gave is one of the most beautiful and profound things I have ever heard

    • @mimihall4682
      @mimihall4682 5 месяцев назад

      what was the definition

    •  5 месяцев назад +3

      @@mimihall4682 to put it simply, he defined life as something that is in a constant battle against nature to keep itself in an organized state. All things tend to desorder, but life fights against that tendency, seeking to maintain it's internal order. But only this comes with a cost. Maintaing internal order comes at the cost of making things around it more desordered. It creates desorder so that it can maintain order inside itself

    • @anniesharma5281
      @anniesharma5281 5 месяцев назад

      This is so beautiful philosophically as well.

  • @abidbourdi6877
    @abidbourdi6877 4 года назад +9664

    I will act like I understood everything

    • @whodeyharambe5776
      @whodeyharambe5776 3 года назад +241

      If anyone says they fully understand ...
      You lie

    • @whodeyharambe5776
      @whodeyharambe5776 3 года назад +6

      @not Funny I know ...not funny😾😺

    • @rodmaiquez726
      @rodmaiquez726 3 года назад +12

      You need to act, to understand something

    • @bocar4127
      @bocar4127 3 года назад +24

      It’s yes and no at the same time

    • @ShahidAhmed07
      @ShahidAhmed07 3 года назад +5

      @not Funny no it its more, if didn't understand quantum physics mean you understood.

  • @walterwhite3372
    @walterwhite3372 3 года назад +6951

    ‘Is your cat alive?’
    Schrödinger: ‘Well yes, but actually no.’

    • @doseofrisher1162
      @doseofrisher1162 3 года назад +126

      But actually both

    • @Gozi101
      @Gozi101 3 года назад +101

      yesn't

    • @walterwhite3372
      @walterwhite3372 3 года назад +11

      @@Gozi101 lol

    • @KurtisC93
      @KurtisC93 3 года назад +65

      "Is your cat dead or alive?"
      Schrödinger: "Yes."

    • @Akhil-_-
      @Akhil-_- 3 года назад +10

      Well no, but actually yes.

  • @jessicajayes8326
    @jessicajayes8326 5 лет назад +1183

    A student goes to the library an asks the librarian if there are any books on Pavlov's dog or Schrodinger's cat. The librarian says "That rings a bell, but I'm not really sure..."

    • @marioisawesome8218
      @marioisawesome8218 5 лет назад +5

      hmm

    • @leitecunha
      @leitecunha 5 лет назад +22

      A fine joke! 😄

    • @dylan8443
      @dylan8443 5 лет назад +11

      Big Brain time

    • @rasputingonzales6030
      @rasputingonzales6030 5 лет назад +2

      Okay, that was pretty good.

    • @rasputingonzales6030
      @rasputingonzales6030 4 года назад +16

      “Not really sure” = Schrodingers Cat paradox. It the cat alive or dead in the box?
      “Rings a bell” = referring to the trained response of Pavlov’s dog salivating at the sound of a bell.
      * c’mon, dude.

  • @dragon_mind1254
    @dragon_mind1254 2 года назад +222

    2:25 I’m learning this right now. Suppose you put a detector on both sides of the slits that detect which side the particle is coming from. It will not act as a wave function anymore, but as a particle. Take away the detectors and then it acts as the wave functions again. Quantum physics/mechanics is cool.

    • @vsgaming5933
      @vsgaming5933 2 года назад +6

      Isn't it a phenomenon

    • @elonmuskito7249
      @elonmuskito7249 2 года назад +3

      ohh yea the good old double slit Exp

    • @mohamedalhusni6255
      @mohamedalhusni6255 Год назад +8

      is it because the observer affects the outcome itself ?

    • @mae-oz3eb
      @mae-oz3eb Год назад +1

      my father explained it to me cause he's obsessed with physics and i think its really cool

    • @thehalfbloodprince-nm8uk
      @thehalfbloodprince-nm8uk Год назад +5

      ​@@mohamedalhusni6255You can think it in this way
      When the particle doesn't interact with matter it acts like a wave.
      But when it interacts with matter it behaves like a particle
      Disclaimer: I may or may not be correct

  • @bball33g
    @bball33g 10 лет назад +4263

    That moment when you drop your iPhone face down. It's both cracked and not cracked at the same time until you check.

    • @vedicpagan8852
      @vedicpagan8852 10 лет назад +152

      LOL, quantum theory orientated jokes another thing to thank Schrödinger and his geeky science associates for ,oh the wonders of theoretical science hahaha : )

    • @bananaroot
      @bananaroot 10 лет назад +239

      Iphone is always cracked when it falls down, and is a disproof of quantum theories...

    • @jadeharley844
      @jadeharley844 10 лет назад +119

      i've dropped my phone at least three times and it is never cracked. therefore, the comment above me is incorrect amd pointless.

    • @bananaroot
      @bananaroot 10 лет назад +62

      Jade Harley Classic case of experiment measurement error

    • @spectrum6474
      @spectrum6474 9 лет назад +103

      +bball33g Schrödinger's Iphone must have had a rough life :(

  • @Stitchpuppy01
    @Stitchpuppy01 5 лет назад +7928

    I understood the word "cat."

  • @lemonade.valley
    @lemonade.valley 5 лет назад +514

    Teacher: so you understand superposition now?
    Me: I'm in a superposition of understanding and not understanding.

  • @asparkdeity8717
    @asparkdeity8717 2 года назад +66

    I watched this video first years ago as a child who was baffled by this; now, in my second year of my undergrad maths course studying quantum mechanics as one of my courses, this makes so much more sense!

  • @AnthonyL0401
    @AnthonyL0401 3 года назад +10523

    schrödinger: I got you a gift
    me: *sigh* is it another dead cat?
    schrödinger: we won’t know until you open it!

    • @auauaua_conchas69
      @auauaua_conchas69 3 года назад +363

      ah, classic schrodinger, always being so mischievous

    • @areenhashemi
      @areenhashemi 3 года назад +83

      Underrated comment

    • @lowercaseguy3578
      @lowercaseguy3578 3 года назад +46

      So it means you can't know state of anything inside a box without opening it first . If that's all then why the headache of understanding the cat can be either dead or alive ......

    • @daalv8016
      @daalv8016 3 года назад +11

      You’d have to have an Alive cat at some point?!

    • @annikachristensen4323
      @annikachristensen4323 3 года назад +4

      LOL I'm dead 😂

  • @suryahr307
    @suryahr307 4 года назад +792

    My PhD interviewer: What is schrodinger's cat thought experiment?
    Me: To me, I'm both selected and rejected for the admission until you tell
    Interviewer:

    • @aerisdl
      @aerisdl 4 года назад +23

      TIME TO DO THIS

    • @suryahr307
      @suryahr307 4 года назад +25

      @@aerisdl if they ask, I do think it's the best witty answer.

    • @vineet3269
      @vineet3269 4 года назад +10

      No. The selection is done only after they make a decision. However, the death of cat already has a chance before the cage is opened

    • @suryahr307
      @suryahr307 4 года назад +8

      @@vineet3269 of course I meant "after the decision was made"

    • @shauryagauniyal9125
      @shauryagauniyal9125 4 года назад +5

      Boom!! You passed the interview 🙌

  • @thewalkingbread706
    @thewalkingbread706 4 года назад +1288

    “So is the cat alive or dead?”
    Schrödinger: *yes*

    • @samar5838
      @samar5838 4 года назад +6

      Stolen comment

    • @banjomcgee6333
      @banjomcgee6333 4 года назад +16

      You are so addicted to likes that you steal comments to feel good about yourself.

    • @suhasop4919
      @suhasop4919 4 года назад +7

      Yesn't

    • @bored2096
      @bored2096 4 года назад +2

      @@banjomcgee6333 dayum

    • @jahsac4571
      @jahsac4571 4 года назад

      Perhaps

  • @colby722
    @colby722 3 года назад +14

    I've been puzzled by this for so long I needed to watch this. Explained it to me so well it seems really simple

  • @hassanaly4838
    @hassanaly4838 4 года назад +564

    So, did the cat survive?
    Schrödinger:Yesn't.

    • @raenashaikh3377
      @raenashaikh3377 3 года назад +9

      And so was the exclamation "yesn't" invented 👍

  • @jimmyjordan5048
    @jimmyjordan5048 4 года назад +4733

    Guess what the comment was by reading replies.

    • @rtendotapiwa306
      @rtendotapiwa306 4 года назад +71

      Yes! And No! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @taleahnelson7855
      @taleahnelson7855 4 года назад +52

      dont call me out like that... 😅😂

    • @isellseagullsfor1dollar729
      @isellseagullsfor1dollar729 4 года назад +37

      Lmao that is so true for me rn. I am meant to be doing english but im learning science with this vid

    • @bjct5002
      @bjct5002 4 года назад +30

      I often watch how to be productive videos instead of being productive

    • @jimmyjordan5048
      @jimmyjordan5048 4 года назад +1

      @Maselek yeah.

  • @BIGFACTSENT
    @BIGFACTSENT 7 лет назад +2795

    When you're sleeping the world doesn't exist until you wake up

    • @antiquarian1773
      @antiquarian1773 6 лет назад +237

      or the universe exist because you were born O-O

    • @bonjovy2720
      @bonjovy2720 6 лет назад +139

      The best short explanation of quantom mechanics, thanks

    • @ditinct8894
      @ditinct8894 6 лет назад +103

      The moon doesn't exist until you look at it

    • @antiquarian1773
      @antiquarian1773 6 лет назад +72

      @@ditinct8894 how about this one... You only wake up in the morning because you expect too.

    • @ditinct8894
      @ditinct8894 6 лет назад +123

      @@antiquarian1773 your comment doesn't exist until I look at it

  • @gbzorro
    @gbzorro 2 года назад +7

    If we place these explanations Schrodinger's Cat and Quantum Mechanics into my brain, it melts.

  • @ayomibhumi9356
    @ayomibhumi9356 9 лет назад +2236

    Schrödinger got pulled over by a cop. The cop look in the trunk and said "do you know there's a dead cat in the back?" "Well now i know, jerk"

    • @styot
      @styot 9 лет назад +209

      +Ayomi Bhumi Schrödinger took his cat to the vet, and the vet told him "Sir, I've got some good news, and some bad news."

    • @marissachavez6445
      @marissachavez6445 9 лет назад +2

      Lmao

    • @maacpiash
      @maacpiash 9 лет назад +4

      +Ayomi Bhumi Jerk? You mean da/dt? ;)

    • @maximtiburziano872
      @maximtiburziano872 9 лет назад

      lol

    • @svendjensen9365
      @svendjensen9365 9 лет назад +10

      +Ayomi Bhumi he got pulled over and didn't!

  • @keertiathalye5793
    @keertiathalye5793 4 года назад +5023

    “What we know is a drop. What we don’t know is an ocean”

  • @theminingstar4672
    @theminingstar4672 5 лет назад +937

    There is food in your fridge until you open it. *Boom.*

  • @mattfrenden1000
    @mattfrenden1000 5 месяцев назад +3

    I'm not gonna be able to think about anything else than Schrödinger's cat at the next funeral I'm attending. Imagine walking up to the coffin whilst the priest is talking, and then open and close the coffin a few times just to make sure.

  • @teddyvia7134
    @teddyvia7134 4 года назад +1694

    no cats were harmed in this experiment - or were they..

    • @luna-hu5uw
      @luna-hu5uw 4 года назад +106

      They *were* but they also *weren't*

    • @supremekiller2477
      @supremekiller2477 4 года назад +11

      they were and they werent

    • @toby2668
      @toby2668 4 года назад +56

      Hi VSauce, Michael here

    • @jacobnewman2494
      @jacobnewman2494 4 года назад +5

      "What makes something there, but not there, and simultaneously here, but not here????"

    • @qualily8286
      @qualily8286 4 года назад +3

      They weren't harmed, they were just killed, duh

  • @illunis8273
    @illunis8273 5 лет назад +2969

    is the cat dead or alive?
    Shrödinger: yes.

  • @kayd4128
    @kayd4128 3 года назад +702

    no one:
    Schrödinger: *hehe unboxing time*

    • @ongz..5908
      @ongz..5908 2 года назад +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤧

    • @breguera77
      @breguera77 2 года назад

      M-m-m-money shot

  • @saanvisharma2126
    @saanvisharma2126 2 месяца назад +1

    Ted ed mentioned in another video why the wavelength of an object decreases as its momentum increases. Momentum increases when either mass or velocity of an object increases. By this logic, the one of the smallest objects in the universe, the electrons, will have the longest, clearly-visible wavelengths.
    Sorry for the rant, I just wanted this comment here so I can refer to it when I inevitably come back to this video:)
    Thanks Ted ed!

  • @gabrielbondoc863
    @gabrielbondoc863 8 лет назад +2592

    Feels like u were taking about the cat in the first minute, but then changed subjects, but didn't at the same time...

    • @mikyathomas8619
      @mikyathomas8619 8 лет назад +91

      Gabriel Bondoc in an odd way that makes sense.

    • @krisg4771
      @krisg4771 8 лет назад +128

      Schrodingers subject

    • @PR0Z0MBIE9877
      @PR0Z0MBIE9877 8 лет назад +30

      You understand it bro

    • @mk_rexx
      @mk_rexx 7 лет назад +23

      Every time Schrödinger's cat is explained

    • @andyfung7878
      @andyfung7878 7 лет назад +3

      love your comment

  • @khangbui3914
    @khangbui3914 5 лет назад +1657

    Well, I’m alive but dead inside

  • @anuragarya6416
    @anuragarya6416 8 лет назад +329

    Before clicking on this video, I had a 50% chance of understanding it, but now when I DID click, I am Brain-Dead.

    • @firefoxyt6600
      @firefoxyt6600 6 лет назад +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂 true

    • @ally462
      @ally462 6 лет назад

      Welcome to physics

    • @serenitybowers6422
      @serenitybowers6422 5 лет назад

      i recommend watching the “quantum mechanics for dummies” video, it really helped me

  • @ingaaloisia490
    @ingaaloisia490 2 года назад +6

    My opinion:
    While the box remains closed, yes, the cat remains ‘a blur of probability’ TO US.
    I will try to present my point with a different example: For many years, people didn’t know about Pluto. But that doesn’t mean that Pluto wasn’t there, or didn’t have a specific place or state or whatever. Pluto could absolutely have existed, as the existence of a thing is not decided by the acknowledgment of people. People don’t have to KNOW about Pluto only for it to EXIST. Schroedingers cat can be dead, or alive, but we don’t have to see it for it to have specific state, because it’s not up to our eyes to decide whether the cat is dead or alive ‚ it can simply BE either dead, or alive. Whether or not and at what point we know about the cats state is a different question.

    • @astronomicalreason9807
      @astronomicalreason9807 4 месяца назад +1

      "It's not up to our eyes to decide whether the cat is alive or dead". Well said.

  • @sam_k
    @sam_k 5 лет назад +6705

    I can't be the only one who understood absolutely nothing

    • @magentas6467
      @magentas6467 5 лет назад +1582

      you're not but you are

    • @Tiandesta
      @Tiandesta 5 лет назад +15

      Yup

    • @ethanblevins1116
      @ethanblevins1116 5 лет назад +454

      It’s a fancy way of saying, “Something is everything until observed”

    • @05xpeter
      @05xpeter 5 лет назад +396

      Feynman: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don't understand quantum mechanics"

    • @jellyfishcluster
      @jellyfishcluster 5 лет назад +156

      You’re not supposed to understand quantum physics

  • @enigma6703
    @enigma6703 9 лет назад +2582

    When you swim near the shore of the sea of knowledge and then venture to go out a bit deeper ... and drown in it.

    • @karapapaxatzidimitrakopoulos
      @karapapaxatzidimitrakopoulos 9 лет назад +25

      +Enigma Yeah, I just got drown.
      Now I don't enjoy swimming.

    • @matthewclifford7217
      @matthewclifford7217 9 лет назад +45

      +Enigma Well at least we all die thinking we're smart.

    • @eyeheisenberg2278
      @eyeheisenberg2278 9 лет назад +4

      +Enigma It's pretty straight forward.
      Are you the center of the Universe or is the Cat?
      I don't believe that the cat is irrelevant as Schrodinger does.
      Let's say a human straps a cat to a table forcing it to view a box wired with a 50/50 life/death chance.
      The human then climbs in the box which can only be opened when the cat meows.
      Does the human sit suspended between life/death until the box is opened? Of course not.
      The human died or survived the moment the lid closed when they got in.

    • @matthewclifford7217
      @matthewclifford7217 9 лет назад +20

      Eye Heisenberg
      
      I have a simpler explanation, however, I'm not sure if it's right or not.
      Again, we have a cat. Now I pull the pin of a grenade, shove it into a specially-made box along with the cat, then shut the trap. This grenade, however, is special because it has 50 percents of exploding, thus killing the cat, and 50 percents of malfunctioning, rendering the cat safe. This box here, is soundproof and is indestructible, so absolutely zero information can pass onto us - the observers. The only way to see the final fate of the cat is to open the box - or measure it. This is where it got interesting in QM. BEFORE you open the box, there's an imperative 50/50 chances the cat is either dead, or alive, so during that time where we know zero information of the cat's fate, we can say that it is, in fact, half dead and half alive.
      So to be exact, the cat is in superposition of being both dead and both alive at the same time BEFORE you measure it, or open the box. When you open the box, or measure the cat, the result will collapse back into a single state, making the cat EITHER dead or alive, and not both.
      This is a weird way of thinking, because in normal, rational way of thought, the cat is either dead or alive, there's no such thing as being both. Or the grenade either explode, or not and only one single result can be deduce even before measurement.

    • @eyeheisenberg2278
      @eyeheisenberg2278 9 лет назад +1

      Matthew Clifford That is the same as Schrodinger's Cat but with a grenade.
      The cat is either alive or dead whether we know it or not.
      Our ignorance of a fact either way does not make this "cat is in superposition of being both dead and both alive at the same time" caper of Schrodinger true except in his own imagination.

  • @sombrerodog9699
    @sombrerodog9699 6 лет назад +3212

    Schorödinger’s cat went into a bar
    And didn’t

    • @cheetahpiper6422
      @cheetahpiper6422 6 лет назад +2

      I love this!!!

    • @nightgal5497
      @nightgal5497 6 лет назад +45

      "so were you at the crime scene?"
      "i was....... and i wasn't"

    • @serenitybowers6422
      @serenitybowers6422 5 лет назад +10

      It didn’t do either, but did both, until it was observed

    • @earfors
      @earfors 5 лет назад +7

      After some qubit analysis - a lot of cats went to that bar. Most were banned, some were lost. Others escaped. Many were entrapped by catnip. The few that made it through, became certainly quantum legends.

    • @katinthegetto2916
      @katinthegetto2916 5 лет назад +1

      Sombrero dog your likes have reached 911

  • @Tanmay5616
    @Tanmay5616 Год назад +9

    This is one of the channel who help me to understand educational concepts. Nice explanation!

    • @Leroy0070
      @Leroy0070 8 месяцев назад

      True. It simplifies ideas ahead making it easy for one know what/how to learn.

  • @Theninjaprasad
    @Theninjaprasad 3 года назад +4907

    Imagine in another universe this experiment will be known as cat's schrodinger 😂

    • @alfmea
      @alfmea 3 года назад +89

      Makes sense.

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 3 года назад +229

      The original postulate should have been, "Put Schrodinger in the box..."

    • @allthebrighttplaces
      @allthebrighttplaces 3 года назад +18

      Manfried the Man joined the chat

    • @schensho6567
      @schensho6567 3 года назад +58

      @@thesoundsmith or "Box Schrödinger in the put..."

    • @aswinlal5341
      @aswinlal5341 3 года назад +11

      Rick and Morty stuff 🤣

  • @05xpeter
    @05xpeter 5 лет назад +804

    Richard Feynman :"If you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don't understand quantum mechanics"

    • @Derekivery
      @Derekivery 5 лет назад +5

      Very VERY true!!!!!

    • @shaunaksawargaonkar7814
      @shaunaksawargaonkar7814 5 лет назад +23

      I thought i understood
      But now i realise that i don't
      .
      .
      .
      Ok so now i truly understand it

    • @00ryanm00
      @00ryanm00 5 лет назад +4

      Its best to just accept the theory and not think too deeply about it as unfortunate as that sounds. Ill let the theorists keep themselves up at night and spare myself the heartache lol. The theory is very possibly incomplete and I like to believe there are hidden variables that solve these issues.

    • @arminbahamin6889
      @arminbahamin6889 5 лет назад

      .. So far no hidden variables have been found for a century!

    • @00ryanm00
      @00ryanm00 5 лет назад +1

      Yes, but each of those experiments only tests one hidden variable. If you try to prove all hidden variables dont exist by proving case by case, then youll never prove they dont exist because you need to do it an infinite number of times.

  • @Churre1
    @Churre1 5 лет назад +352

    Me: What do you have in that box?
    Schrödinger: A cat
    Me: Alive or dead?
    Schrödinger: Yes

    • @KelvenOne
      @KelvenOne 4 года назад +1

      now i'm wondering, who would ask that question?
      Person 1: yo i got a cat in a box
      Person 2: cool cool, is it alive?

  • @calebbrowning4328
    @calebbrowning4328 3 месяца назад +1

    It is insane how one curious experiment in some ways turned into the computers we have today.

  • @anvit6363
    @anvit6363 5 лет назад +297

    Me: Is the cat alive or dead?
    Schrödinger: Yes

  • @sudhanshuyadav19
    @sudhanshuyadav19 4 года назад +783

    Schrodinger's cat
    Wanted
    Dead or alive

    • @carlosmspk
      @carlosmspk 3 года назад +44

      That means if he's dead and alive, there's no reward for you :(

    • @hereicomeiamcinnamon951
      @hereicomeiamcinnamon951 3 года назад +12

      @@carlosmspk very sog champ moment :(

    • @areenhashemi
      @areenhashemi 3 года назад +3

      Underrated comment

    • @krokiety5712
      @krokiety5712 3 года назад +14

      @@carlosmspk you would get double reward and no reward until you turn it in and find out

    • @hertzair1186
      @hertzair1186 3 года назад +3

      ...saw that on a Tshirt

  • @jacksonstein809
    @jacksonstein809 5 лет назад +475

    “Famous for something he never actually did”
    Christopher Colombias: Hold my Smallpox

    • @ainzoshle457
      @ainzoshle457 5 лет назад +19

      I thought it was Christopher Colombus.

  • @colinwhite5355
    @colinwhite5355 Год назад +1

    I used Google translate to produce several recording of this explanation, including in; Yiddish, Swahili and Urdu. I then played them backwards, simultaneously. It made the whole thing so much easier to understand.

  • @user-nd3dh4ok3n
    @user-nd3dh4ok3n 4 года назад +245

    Me: *scrolling trought the comments and smiling*
    My parents: What are you watching?
    Me: um...it's complicated

    • @jofx4051
      @jofx4051 4 года назад +17

      I'm watching and not watching at the same time

    • @deedevon7468
      @deedevon7468 4 года назад +5

      Wholesome comment 😁

    • @elmo9097
      @elmo9097 4 года назад +2

      exactly but also not

    • @dheerajmishra1741
      @dheerajmishra1741 4 года назад +1

      They have to see to be sure

  • @ketuu4057
    @ketuu4057 5 лет назад +485

    Video: *ends*
    Me: I didn't understand anything but loved the animations

    • @ladymarcy7830
      @ladymarcy7830 4 года назад +21

      I understood one word: cat
      All others:🗿

    • @Monochromicornicopia
      @Monochromicornicopia 4 года назад +6

      It made no sense because its wrong. TED-Ed got schrodingers cat completely backwards. Its actually a counter example that shows how quantum mechanics CANNOT be applied to large systems like cats.

  • @wj8003
    @wj8003 5 лет назад +308

    My physics teacher has a bumper sticker that says: "If you know Schrodinger, wave!"

    • @Phoenixblue.
      @Phoenixblue. 5 лет назад +2

      And if u don't then don't

    • @althealligator1467
      @althealligator1467 5 лет назад +9

      Wait so that means every single person that saw that sticker claimed they knew Schrodinger

    • @kathy582
      @kathy582 5 лет назад +5

      Wjimenez923 *all Big Bang theory fans wave*

    • @marcoanonymous8434
      @marcoanonymous8434 5 лет назад

      I like his thinking!

  • @sundareshvenugopal6575
    @sundareshvenugopal6575 4 месяца назад +1

    1) Take a piece of cardboard.
    2) Make two slits in it.
    3) Shine a light from behind it.
    No interference pattern observed. If the interference pattern is really observed when a beam of single photons or electrons are fired, it should also be observed when a beam of more than one electron or one photon is fired. If each and every electron and photon is simultaneously going through both the slits, the pattern should only be more clearer when a beam of more than one electron or one photon is fired.

  • @cringecomputerscientist
    @cringecomputerscientist 4 года назад +271

    Old Memer: internet wouldn't have existed without cats
    Quantum Physics scientists: Y E S

  • @heyitsshakil
    @heyitsshakil 3 года назад +2069

    Most of us are like
    Not understanding a single thing
    Watching the vid
    Lying in bed
    Reading comments for the conclusion

  • @JasonJacksonJames
    @JasonJacksonJames 8 лет назад +1087

    All I understood was the story of the cat put in a box

  • @janhvinarayan1633
    @janhvinarayan1633 Год назад +2

    Seeing this after studying wave optics in school and heard of this experiment in the big bang theory, science and universe is so vast and great, we never know enough and that's incredible

  • @lukebarth5424
    @lukebarth5424 4 года назад +841

    I've never watched a video that legitimately stressed me out until now

    • @kevinc.cucumber3697
      @kevinc.cucumber3697 3 года назад +68

      Universe is just insane, we don’t have the capacity to comprehend it. Just stop thinking and watch a movie or something.

    • @stephaniecarrow4898
      @stephaniecarrow4898 3 года назад +5

      😄😄 LOL

    • @pjjustice5014
      @pjjustice5014 3 года назад +28

      Lol try to watch videos explaining 4th dimension and time dilation. They are much worse than this

    • @sigsauer_firearms
      @sigsauer_firearms 3 года назад +11

      @@pjjustice5014 those arent that bad and are pretty easy to understand

    • @pjb8295
      @pjb8295 2 года назад +4

      @@pjjustice5014 I find those easier to grasp than this to be honest

  • @morganzachlfich4309
    @morganzachlfich4309 3 года назад +194

    its just like how i tell my mom i passed the test yet failed at the same time
    "DONT LOOK AT THE TEST PAPER MOM"

  • @daniellandoe8069
    @daniellandoe8069 5 лет назад +458

    0:52 what seems absurd is that the cat has two tails.

    • @nsbhater
      @nsbhater 5 лет назад +5

      Agreed 😹 I guess is was the drawers effort towards an equal fifty-fifty 😹 maths and logic don't always unite 🙈

    • @humanbeing1429
      @humanbeing1429 5 лет назад +6

      You made me go back to 0:52 and I laughed out loud.

    • @angelicasysnila5476
      @angelicasysnila5476 5 лет назад +8

      The fact that it has two tail cuz they are two different cats of two different realities, which in represented as a single merged cat

    • @inessa5923
      @inessa5923 5 лет назад +1

      You’re being transphobic

    • @drosophilamelanogaster3121
      @drosophilamelanogaster3121 5 лет назад +1

      Actually yes but no

  • @Glacierrune
    @Glacierrune Год назад +3

    Totally off topic but the lil transistors are SO CUTE. I WANT ONE AS A PET FR. 3:59

  • @DoodleDan
    @DoodleDan 5 лет назад +2743

    What if you had a camera in the box?
    *Physics left the chat*

    • @royaamuzumaki3891
      @royaamuzumaki3891 5 лет назад +500

      DoodleDan hahaha. But the reason we can't have a camera is that for something to get into a superposition, it is required that it must not be watched, heard, speculated, or recorded in any way. Otherwise it can't enter a superposition.

    • @justsomedudeiguess1746
      @justsomedudeiguess1746 5 лет назад +293

      The universe has a secret and it wants to keep it

    • @igglyy3776
      @igglyy3776 5 лет назад +135

      DoodleDan then you have observed it, and by using your curiosity you have either killed or kept the cat alive.

    • @MrMasterKaio
      @MrMasterKaio 5 лет назад +55

      It's not really about observation. It's about interaction with other particles. So Schrödingers cat would never work. It always is in only one position, namely dead or alive.

    • @igglyy3776
      @igglyy3776 5 лет назад +12

      Kai but schrodingers cat was namely an example of superposition no?

  • @lost1027
    @lost1027 3 года назад +2229

    Im kinda impressed at my ability to come back to this video every year and yet not understand this
    (Thx for the likes guys)
    Note: I did understand this it's pretty simple just confusing. can the comments bout explaining me how it works stop

    • @presauced
      @presauced 3 года назад +17

      lmao same

    • @solonada9602
      @solonada9602 3 года назад +78

      We are mere average people.

    • @presauced
      @presauced 3 года назад +10

      @@solonada9602 Yep, sadly.

    • @solonada9602
      @solonada9602 3 года назад +47

      @@presauced The saddest part is that we can't do anything about it, because fluid intelligence is hardly malleable and has a limit. It does not behave like wealth or RUclips subscribers.

    • @presauced
      @presauced 3 года назад +51

      @@solonada9602 You.. could be underestimating yourself? You have good vocabulary and you use punctuations well.

  • @mycabbages6264
    @mycabbages6264 4 года назад +136

    "They killed you?"
    The cat: *"well yes, but actually no"*

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 года назад +1

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie ruclips.net/video/I40WiQLhlgk/видео.html

  • @veerchasm1
    @veerchasm1 2 года назад +1

    “Does a bear fart in the woods?” Is a better allegory

  • @Kebabrulle4869
    @Kebabrulle4869 8 лет назад +224

    My little brother after this video:
    "...
    ...
    ...What is it with cats and the internet?"

  • @zacharynunn6532
    @zacharynunn6532 5 лет назад +1083

    Wait so when you go to a funeral, the persons not dead until you get there?
    *murderer*

    • @thanasgoga7127
      @thanasgoga7127 5 лет назад +77

      Murderer: Am I a joke to you

    • @pmtclock
      @pmtclock 5 лет назад +16

      Me: dies of laughter

    • @shxtney
      @shxtney 5 лет назад +12

      plot twist

    • @thisguyispeculiar
      @thisguyispeculiar 5 лет назад +35

      That actually makes sense because if someone had an accident no one witnessed and is now missing, neither any relatives nor the police can tell if they are dead.

    • @devilsadvocate7474
      @devilsadvocate7474 5 лет назад +24

      But if the funeral takes place, then we already know for sure that the person is ded, nah ?

  • @Selwynn
    @Selwynn 4 года назад +988

    100% dead. Forgot to poke air holes in the box.
    :(

  • @roastie2210
    @roastie2210 8 месяцев назад +1

    3:16 An atom in two different ordits seems wierd, but two ordits can be in one place and the atom can ordit both of them. Means the two nucleus are spinning and atom is standing in one place. That explains this right.

  • @mancheee646
    @mancheee646 4 года назад +148

    *When my teacher asks if i've done my homework*
    Me: Yeahno
    Her: What?
    Me: well... _It's complicated_

    • @IIOOOAndikaYudhistira
      @IIOOOAndikaYudhistira 4 года назад

      Me : Try to find out

    • @nidhithakkar635
      @nidhithakkar635 4 года назад

      😆😆

    • @nidhithakkar635
      @nidhithakkar635 4 года назад

      @@IIOOOAndikaYudhistira 😆👍

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 года назад

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie ruclips.net/video/I40WiQLhlgk/видео.html

    • @cynthiakinsley8505
      @cynthiakinsley8505 4 года назад

      My 4 year old grandson understands Schrödingers Cat perfectly.!
      4 yr old: (is being rude)
      His mom: "Son, be polite. Ask don't take. Say please. " *
      4 year old: "pleasethankyou".
      (Takes or does what he iniially desired).
      * His mom's failed assumption: that he would wait. He assumed the close.
      Thus demonstrating the yes/no or 0/1....

  • @ironvanguard7219
    @ironvanguard7219 7 лет назад +595

    I could understand it until he said “superposition”

    • @firefoxyt6600
      @firefoxyt6600 6 лет назад +41

      I could understand it until he said "Australian"

    • @jaycheda3232
      @jaycheda3232 6 лет назад +8

      @@firefoxyt6600 i couldnt understand

    • @firefoxyt6600
      @firefoxyt6600 6 лет назад +2

      @@jaycheda3232 you couldn't understand my comment or the video??

    • @jaycheda3232
      @jaycheda3232 6 лет назад +9

      @@firefoxyt6600 everything

    • @Monochromicornicopia
      @Monochromicornicopia 6 лет назад +14

      the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was devised as a counter-example to illustrate the absurdity of applying quantum mechanics to macroscopic systems.

  • @whyureadingmyname9570
    @whyureadingmyname9570 3 года назад +925

    Man watching this I’m like oh okay I got it but then he starts adding wavelength like how Greeks added the alphabet to algebra, they had us in the first half not gonna lie.

    • @faithh5546
      @faithh5546 3 года назад +13

      Lmao same

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 3 года назад +2

      Wvaelength IS the universe...

    • @jamespfitz
      @jamespfitz 3 года назад +19

      I feel like he just said "things exist in two places simultaneously" then showed us the reason: because things exist in two places simultaneously.

    • @KaranSingh-jr2eu
      @KaranSingh-jr2eu 3 года назад +1

      its a mind blowing thing when one finally understand this concept.

    • @ivamanral989
      @ivamanral989 2 года назад +1

      Watch veritasium and you'll know how math was made! My brains blew off today

  • @jamesstuart3346
    @jamesstuart3346 Год назад +2

    Oh great now I'll have billions of math videos recommended

  • @spjr99
    @spjr99 3 года назад +94

    That feel when u take 2 chemistry classes and an organic chemistry class in college and this video explained the idea of covalent bonds better than anyone i've ever gotten a lecture from

  • @varunshenai3811
    @varunshenai3811 4 года назад +260

    No one -
    Literally no one-
    Schrodinger and his cat - Yesn't

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 года назад

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie ruclips.net/video/I40WiQLhlgk/видео.html

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 3 года назад

      @RITVIK which one?

  • @cking4869
    @cking4869 5 лет назад +614

    I always thought Schrodinger’s cat was kind of ridiculous. Turns out Schrodinger agrees.

  • @vinfinity8940
    @vinfinity8940 10 месяцев назад +2

    I am glad I understood this video better than ever after 3years and a physics degree.

  • @openskies9089
    @openskies9089 4 года назад +470

    In another parallel world it would be Schrödinger's Dog

    • @ucokjohnson8708
      @ucokjohnson8708 3 года назад +8

      And it would be pavlov's cat

    • @andromedagalaxian2158
      @andromedagalaxian2158 3 года назад +16

      it would be cat putting Schrödinger in a box and calling it *Cat's Schrödinger experiment*

    • @Oldladies_o7
      @Oldladies_o7 3 года назад +2

      Checkovs cat and schrodingers gun

    • @p_u_j_a6091
      @p_u_j_a6091 3 года назад

      😂😂

    • @-FRIANEZAKENKANIFFSKIT
      @-FRIANEZAKENKANIFFSKIT 3 года назад

      or Schrödinger's Crush, because Schrödinger's Crush might likes him or not at the same time until he asks his crush

  • @srikarkomanduri2933
    @srikarkomanduri2933 6 лет назад +312

    Just use a transparent box damn it

    • @HealthHubss
      @HealthHubss 5 лет назад +33

      Then the moment you see the transparent box is when the universe makes the decision

    • @bretsheeley4034
      @bretsheeley4034 5 лет назад +23

      @@HealthHubss Technically the moment any light or other particles interact with the live/dead cat and can transfer knowledge of the alive/dead state elsewhere, that's when the superposition collapses.

    • @steakslave
      @steakslave 5 лет назад +4

      @@bretsheeley4034 I understand the philosophical idea behind Schrödinger's cat, and how it relates to the probabilities of what is observable. (I think.) But how does that relate to the superposition of electrons? The electron is on an atomic scale. While the unobserved cat (while definitely either alive or dead), can't really be in both STATES at the same time, the electron can be in more than one LOCATION at the same time, or at least time as we can measure it.

    • @shubhamtiwari9472
      @shubhamtiwari9472 5 лет назад +1

      @@steakslave it's more like the probability of cat being alive/dead . We can only know it after opening the box but 1 second before we can't. It can either be alive/dead. It's a speculative psychological experiment kinda. Similarly electron on such a microscopic scale has the dual nature. That's why we speak about the probability of finding the electron.

    • @mariealaba4160
      @mariealaba4160 5 лет назад

      Srikar Komanduri There's no point then

  • @farahh1502
    @farahh1502 4 года назад +147

    no one :
    Schrödinger's cat : I am alive but I am dead

  • @ankittiwari15506
    @ankittiwari15506 2 года назад +2

    Schrodinger's cat : No dogs are harmed in this experiment.

  • @munesh.105
    @munesh.105 4 года назад +85

    Shrödinger: are you alive?
    Shrödinger's cat: well yes, but actually no

  • @dalesmith4609
    @dalesmith4609 5 лет назад +417

    so Erwin Schrodinger died a while ago and he was buried in a coffin,can you see where i'm going with this?

    • @dalesmith4609
      @dalesmith4609 5 лет назад +10

      @Work is worship Exactly! Would his cat be able to sniff out his grave?!! Great minds...

    • @neonz2712
      @neonz2712 5 лет назад +13

      We must never open the coffin!

    • @jakesamuel5197
      @jakesamuel5197 5 лет назад +11

      @Just your friendly neighborhood quiet kid He is dead if he goes into the box dead 100%

    • @jakesamuel5197
      @jakesamuel5197 5 лет назад +8

      ​@Just your friendly neighborhood quiet kid If you never saw his corpse, you can't confirm that he is dead, therefore you cant confirm he is buried in a coffin. If you assume he is dead, like you did in the comment, then he is dead

    • @marknelsontejada6452
      @marknelsontejada6452 5 лет назад

      Maybe he already passed through another dimension.

  • @atishsaha132
    @atishsaha132 4 года назад +233

    _"So... Did the cat survive?"_
    Schrödinger: *YESNO!*

  • @themonomineestation5815
    @themonomineestation5815 Год назад +1

    I remembered that there was a game on armor games that involved this. I don't remember the name of it though.

  • @peepiepo
    @peepiepo 8 лет назад +888

    The strange thing is, Schrodinger was actually saying that quantum states can't occur in a macro world. He basically said a cat in a box obviously *isn't* both dead and alive, yet for some reason the total opposite keeps getting repeated

    • @dalek1099
      @dalek1099 8 лет назад +9

      The experiment was based on a microscopic state though of the radiating atoms?

    • @DanielAjoyB
      @DanielAjoyB 8 лет назад +66

      Right, that lie is repeated even in this video: "As absurd as it may seam, though, Schrodinger's cat is very real".
      This video is doing a disservice to the understanding of Quantum Physics.

    • @killyourself7947
      @killyourself7947 8 лет назад +78

      the cat was very small.

    • @kendawnkarish1434
      @kendawnkarish1434 6 лет назад +4

      I knew the cat was alive. It was purrrrrring.

    • @yeopyeop4098
      @yeopyeop4098 6 лет назад

      Heisemberg is incorrect, correct answer....

  • @Borderlands2iscool
    @Borderlands2iscool 9 лет назад +1256

    Damn i wish i wasn't an idiot and could understand shit like this! :D

    • @taxavoider9889
      @taxavoider9889 9 лет назад +149

      First step to understanding quantum mechanics is that it doesn't make sense.

    • @fazlulhowladerbibi5377
      @fazlulhowladerbibi5377 9 лет назад +51

      +TheGamerGirl just watch hours and hours of vsauce,ted ed,veritasium,in a nutshell,brit lab,cgp grey,numberphile and minutephysics and you'll understand this video.That's what i did all last summer.

    • @taxavoider9889
      @taxavoider9889 9 лет назад +24

      +Fazlul HOWLADER BIBI true. I have being watching them and others for about 2-3 years, as well as reading lots of stuff about advanced sciencey stuff (if you call "sciencey" a real word) and at 14 I get to annoy a lot of people with SCIENCE!

    • @fazlulhowladerbibi5377
      @fazlulhowladerbibi5377 9 лет назад +2

      same here

    • @CrissAlcantara
      @CrissAlcantara 9 лет назад +9

      +Fazlul HOWLADER BIBI problem is that in those videos the math for most of these scientific phenomenons (which is actually quite beautiful) is almost completely neglected to make them more viewer-friendly.

  • @mirelholban8013
    @mirelholban8013 8 лет назад +1421

    Not sure if too high or too dumb to understand quantum mechanics

    • @killyourself7947
      @killyourself7947 8 лет назад +172

      Science is high and dumb.
      Amen.

    • @yashsrivastava5227
      @yashsrivastava5227 8 лет назад +160

      Its ok. Richard Feynman, an American physicist stated "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."

    • @harmonicpsyche8313
      @harmonicpsyche8313 7 лет назад +22

      Iah Coron *Not high enough. FTFY

    • @yungdani9018
      @yungdani9018 7 лет назад +9

      both tbh

    • @texasray5237
      @texasray5237 6 лет назад

      Too smart.

  • @kondwaniphiri9772
    @kondwaniphiri9772 2 года назад +2

    that flew over my head ,am watching it again