Physicist reacts to memes on quantum physics

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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024

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  • @SabineHossenfelder
    @SabineHossenfelder  Год назад +49

    This video comes with a quiz! You can take it here: quizwithit.com/start_thequiz/1698551295283x991929444055077900

    • @GyroZeppeliiii
      @GyroZeppeliiii Год назад

      Hi sabine. I know this comment is a bit out of context, but I need to hear some clear (or unclear if it's not known yet) answer.
      When people say quantum mechanics is "non local", isn't it a bit of a stretch? The bell and CHSH inequalities are based on (along with the """free will""" thing, but let's leave that aside) 2 statements:
      -locality, which means strictly the inability to change the state of B performing local operations on A
      -hidden variables, sometimes called realism: quantum variables are like the classical ones, they exist and have a definite value and describe the system, we just don't know them.
      This being said (correct me if I'm wrong), which of the hypothesis is wrong since the inequality are violated? My professor strongly asserted that surely the realism one is wrong, while the locality (in strict sense) is without a doubt conserved. But I found many books, as the Nielsen-Chuang, saying that those are both wrong. Are there any experimental proof that the locality (strictly) is violated? I can't find anything because of the fact that all papers refer to "non locality" as the whole thing, but I'm interested just in the specific aspect.
      Hope you'll answer, or make a video about it (even better)

    • @81giorikas
      @81giorikas Год назад

      Dude (tte), you are not taking the Planck hair meme away from civilization!!!

    • @badkarm4
      @badkarm4 11 месяцев назад

      Could you discribe each and every galaxy as maybe a universe?

    • @badkarm4
      @badkarm4 11 месяцев назад

      Sabine? Can't you look into infinity?

    • @badkarm4
      @badkarm4 11 месяцев назад

      You don't even the double slit...

  • @asystole_
    @asystole_ Год назад +1692

    Leave it to a German person to rate jokes on a scientific three-dimension scale ;)

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 Год назад +116

      I found this whole video so hilarious. Sabine's attempt at killing the fun in the memes is so funny

    • @kael13
      @kael13 Год назад +16

      That’s what I thought. Could suck the fun out of a bouncy castle.

    • @HagenvonEitzen
      @HagenvonEitzen Год назад +10

      Well, it takes anoutsde observer ... ;)

    • @Manorainjan
      @Manorainjan Год назад +12

      Fun-Fact: Sabine is a German person.

    • @il_vero_saspacifico6141
      @il_vero_saspacifico6141 Год назад

      You mean an autistic Person 😂

  • @NitFlickwick
    @NitFlickwick Год назад +541

    The funniest thing in this video is how seriously Sabine took it. Comedy gold.

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 Год назад +33

      Typical German humor. Most people don't get it, except nerds on youtube maybe.

    • @ranid0072
      @ranid0072 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@DR_1_1yeah. Nicest humor is just about a toilet buba-gaga giggles and etc. i guess...

    • @UnsoberIdiot
      @UnsoberIdiot 10 месяцев назад

      @@DR_1_1 German humour is very serious. It's no laughing matter.

  • @Craznar
    @Craznar Год назад +2294

    Quantum Meme : Sabine is both being funny and unfunny at the same time.

    • @Business_Memo
      @Business_Memo Год назад +56

      She had a GRADING RUBRIC. Just... yes.

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 Год назад +76

      I give you a 10 for accuracy

    • @Liberum69
      @Liberum69 Год назад +82

      That wave function collapsed as soon as she said "shit".

    • @queuecee
      @queuecee Год назад +17

      ​@@LuisSierra42that's a 2 in binary.

    • @jayr526
      @jayr526 Год назад +24

      ​@@queueceeyep. There are 10 kinds of people in the world.

  •  Год назад +468

    I believe “Einstein faster than light” meme has a simpler take. It jokes about a situation where one wouldn’t be able to photograph particles faster than light. It’s “pics or it didn’t happen”, a common and very old meme, put in a situation where there couldn’t possibly be pictures.

    • @greatPretender79
      @greatPretender79 Год назад +27

      I thought the exact same thing. Pics are made with light that has bounced off of objects

    • @gary.h.turner
      @gary.h.turner Год назад +35

      Yes, surely this meme is about relativity, not quantum physics!

    • @andreaspoppe5176
      @andreaspoppe5176 Год назад +19

      How to show the speed of a particle - or any moving object like a car - on a single photo? To ask for a proof of "something faster than c" by wording "pics or it didn't happen" is really so double-wrong here, and you don't need entanglement to explain why it is pretty funny.

    •  Год назад +9

      you are right. I think Sabine missed this one.... Her explanation on this one sounded weird to me.

    • @lucasdasilva23
      @lucasdasilva23 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@andreaspoppe5176 "pics" is plural, is it not?

  • @judelarkin2883
    @judelarkin2883 Год назад +255

    I took a spin class to finally learn what spin is. The teaching method is a bit unconventional for a physics class but I’ve never been in better shape.

    • @HansLemurson
      @HansLemurson 11 месяцев назад +4

      Don't lose too much weight though, or you might have some trouble finding the class.

    • @NotSoMuchFrankly
      @NotSoMuchFrankly 11 месяцев назад +9

      So, you're a sphere, but...not?

    • @feraudyh
      @feraudyh 11 месяцев назад

      People who get a PhD working on spin are spin doctors.

  • @Malakawaka
    @Malakawaka Год назад +130

    "the girlfriend will be outraged in any possible universe" is Sabine making the meme funnier than it was

  • @THOR-fg1ni
    @THOR-fg1ni Год назад +365

    Sabine casually throwing shade at biology got me wheezing

    • @ralphacosta4726
      @ralphacosta4726 Год назад +45

      Seriously, some biologists (and physicists) are trying to invoke quantum effects in explaining consciousness, when no one can even define consciousness (except in medicine, where it means your response to outside stimuli; if you don't respond you're not conscious).

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 Год назад +14

      Photosynthesis is based on Quantum, it's well known for decades. Some bird most likely use a quantum process to navigate (other species use different techniques).
      I'm less convinced with the micro-tubules and consciousness theory, but there might be "something" in there, too.

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin Год назад +9

      @@DR_1_1 Right, there are some solid examples to pull from. but they are few and far between. But QM is tried to be invoked for EVERYTHING lol

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 Год назад +2

      @@kindlin True that the furthest we reach, the smallest the steps appear to be, despite the dream to have a theory of everything...
      Maybe it's just not possible, and as Jung (is supposed to have) said, science is only one of the multiple attitude of the mind?

    • @warfarenotwarfair5655
      @warfarenotwarfair5655 Год назад +1

      ​@@ralphacosta4726That is because standards in universities are incredibly low and hopefully many of these useless desk dwellers are replaced by AI 🤣

  • @srobertweiser
    @srobertweiser Год назад +272

    Sabine, I never thought of you as a reactionary. But I'll give you 10/10/10 for nerdy, funny, educational.

    • @KhalerJex
      @KhalerJex Год назад

      shes not a reactionary, just an autistic liberal

    • @piemaster310
      @piemaster310 Год назад +18

      Guess you didn't see her video on capitalism lol

    • @enderredacted112
      @enderredacted112 Год назад +8

      ​@@piemaster310never gonna forget her hypocrisy on "sticking to one's field" on that one

    • @Thomas-gk42
      @Thomas-gk42 Год назад +3

      @@piemaster310 blabla, can't forget a single mistake? Hope you have the same strength about yourself

    • @dermaniac5205
      @dermaniac5205 Год назад +2

      Either I'm missing a joke or you should look up what "reactionary" means :-P

  • @andrewpaulhart
    @andrewpaulhart Год назад +182

    I’ve always said that Germans take their humour VERY seriously

    • @hans-jorgeygerd9044
      @hans-jorgeygerd9044 Год назад +15

      Maybe you missed an aspect: Taking humor VERY seriously is an additional kind of humor.

    • @Mp57navy
      @Mp57navy Год назад +12

      German humor is serious business.

    • @peter.g6
      @peter.g6 Год назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @robertlewis6915
      @robertlewis6915 11 месяцев назад +2

      As a result, they did extensive real-life experiments with genocide jokes in the mid-century, with mixed results.

    • @vast634
      @vast634 11 месяцев назад +2

      Humor is a serious matter

  • @jeffgriffith9692
    @jeffgriffith9692 Год назад +82

    Didn't think this was going to be THAT interesting but gave it a shot and really glad I did. You never disappoint.

  • @kmech3rd
    @kmech3rd Год назад +82

    Never thought I'd find the vivisection of jokes to be itself so hilarious. It's like what the kids call meta humor, I guess. Bravo, Sabine!

  • @johngage5391
    @johngage5391 Год назад +61

    10 on accuracy. 10 on informative. And 10 on funny. Thanks Sabine, for another great video!

  • @theslay66
    @theslay66 Год назад +59

    Damn. Now Sabine is giving us lectures on nerdiness. And she nails it, of course.

  • @bazoo513
    @bazoo513 Год назад +49

    Your comments were _way_ funnier than the memes themselves. Well done, dr. Hossenfelder!

  • @agent9149
    @agent9149 Год назад +46

    Reactions are a part of science!

    • @thearmchairspacemanOG
      @thearmchairspacemanOG Год назад +3

      a part of.. or apart from.

    • @brothermine2292
      @brothermine2292 Год назад +3

      ​@@thearmchairspacemanOG: In this case, the "a" is superfluous: "Reactions are part of science."

    • @thearmchairspacemanOG
      @thearmchairspacemanOG Год назад

      @@brothermine2292 correct.. .. yes..

    • @brothermine2292
      @brothermine2292 Год назад

      In words like "apart" the leading 'a' is a prefix that means "not." Two parallel lines are forever apart. (Parallel lines are separated from each other.) Another example is moral versus amoral.
      It's a common mistake to omit the significant space between "a" and "part" when writing "a part" as if it were spelled "apart."

    • @thearmchairspacemanOG
      @thearmchairspacemanOG Год назад

      @@brothermine2292 bollocks, USA. you haven't a damned clue how the Invaders tongue works... the prefix for ''not'' is Ae.

  • @EvanEdwards
    @EvanEdwards Год назад +18

    I learned quantum mechanics by marrying somebody who progressed through her PhD and wound up doing research in computational quantum chemistry. 20 years and I now know a decent amount of how much I don't know. Which is a pretty decent place to be, honestly. She had a "in memory" slide at an ACS conference earlier this year. I miss the heck out of sitting and just talking science and math with her.

  • @TysonJensen
    @TysonJensen Год назад +107

    Schrödinger's plates seem like an accurate picture of a deterministic version of QM. With enough information you know that the plates will break, but the "plate function" has them in a pre-collapse state.

    • @petertomshany
      @petertomshany Год назад +9

      …but, you *can* see inside the box, which makes it a poor representation, riiiight?

    • @spugelo359
      @spugelo359 Год назад +13

      And it's still possible to save those plates because they are not broken yet. But to find out the end result, you need to open it and make an attempt to save as many of them as possible.

    • @johngage5391
      @johngage5391 Год назад +17

      I think the designer implied that the door was opaque, but that wouldn't work in the meme because we need to know there's something behind it. So the meme failed due to an inaccuracy driven by the limits of the medium.

    • @TysonJensen
      @TysonJensen Год назад +3

      2 for accuracy, 8 for explains how a deterministic QM would look if someone could look at it which they can't.@@petertomshany

    • @ewetyube
      @ewetyube Год назад +5

      @johngage5391 explains it quite nicely. If you think that the meme is inaccurate because you can see the plates, then you are only looking at the trees. I would also argue that you are intentionally and quite needlessly ignoring the fact that you also saw the forest.

  • @jfverboom7973
    @jfverboom7973 Год назад +17

    12:50
    Take note : there is a traffic sign, which forbids going to the left.
    It is just above the left pointing arrow on the road surface.
    Then there are also 2 blue traffic signs indicating one way traffic to the left.
    Totally confusing.

    • @sabinrawr
      @sabinrawr Год назад +1

      Also, the painted word LEFT would be centered, whereas RIGHT would be weirdly askew below TURN.
      Among the clues you gave, the inconsistent one is the "no left turn" sign. Closer inspection reveals that it is a temporary sign mounted on a folding barricade. That indicates to me that it, and presumably the errant "RIGHT" paint, were meant to be a somewhat temporary solution, probably due to road construction or utility work that is expected to last a few weeks to a few months.

    • @Geekofarm
      @Geekofarm Год назад +2

      Here in New Zealand our road markings are in thin, cheap paint and poorly maintained. So they turn invisible in the rain, which makes things even more quantumy.

  • @folee_edge
    @folee_edge Год назад +29

    I love this, because Sabine is brilliant, but very linear (as good scientists usually are) and exceptionally precise - which makes the memes HYSTERICAL

  • @hyperbaroque
    @hyperbaroque Год назад +6

    0:50 "So, we'll be nerding all over the place, to-day." Aaaaand I just lost No Nerd November.

  • @affugter
    @affugter Год назад +5

    9:45 Sabina throwing shade at Matt O'Dowd

  • @AdamZMouchnic
    @AdamZMouchnic Год назад +6

    An electron is driving its car on a highway. It is stopped by the police. "Sir," says the policeman, "are you aware that you were driving 140km per hour?" "Well, thank you very much," replies the electron, "now I am lost."

  • @joonglegamer9898
    @joonglegamer9898 Год назад +19

    After watching this I think I went into a Quantum State, I both yawned and laughed at the same time, that was absolutely terrifying.

  • @eljcd
    @eljcd Год назад +15

    This video is a 10/10/10!
    And thank you for pointing out that a one slit experiment produces a interference pattern too, damnit!

  • @HiveGod-k2d
    @HiveGod-k2d Год назад +8

    This is definitely on the list of things I didn't know I needed until I got it, thank you Sabine 😁

  • @84com83
    @84com83 Год назад +2

    At 5:46 is an extremely good illustration of Schrödinger´s principle = cat!

  • @robo5013
    @robo5013 Год назад +3

    Just saw a meme yesterday that had a cat that chewed its way out of a box that said 'tell Schrodinger I'm alive.' Got a good laugh from it.

  • @domeplsffs
    @domeplsffs 10 месяцев назад +1

    @3:00 'Yes i have issues' - her deadpan delivery of her comedy is such gold. I just can't. Vielen Dank, Frau Hossenfelder für Ihre Arbeit! Es ist wahrhaft immer ein Vergnügen Ihnen zuzuhören.

  • @crawkn
    @crawkn Год назад +42

    I guess if Schrodinger's box was made of glass like the cabinet doors it would have ruined the surprise. Maybe once a year you could do a best physics memes special.

    • @russbell6418
      @russbell6418 Год назад +8

      I gave it a 10 for funny, because I could visualize Schrödinger looking at it and visualizing his uncertainty.

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 Год назад +2

      Schrödinger didn't make any sense with this example, the cat is an observer, and in the front row!
      He just hated cats, and chose this story to figuratively keep one in a box with poison gas for eternity.
      His daughter spilled the beans about this...

    • @clockworkvanhellsing372
      @clockworkvanhellsing372 Год назад +5

      It's not about the observable physical state but about the usefullnes of the plate since they are still whole but will most likely be broken if you want to use them and therfpre can be considered as good as broken.

    • @crawkn
      @crawkn Год назад +4

      @@DR_1_1 He wasn't trying to make sense he was trying to say it was nonsense. But the multiple layers of observation is almost inescapable, since any measurement apparatus has layers before any indication gets to a human observer. Observation and measurement should never have been involved in the discussion, all that is required is an interaction or spontaneous event.

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 Год назад

      @@crawkn Agree with your first 2 points/sentences, but I think you don't get the 3rd correctly... or you are just rejecting Quantum.

  • @wesleyking6713
    @wesleyking6713 Год назад +8

    Loved her take on the electron spin. I laughed out loud. "Physicists really say shit like that."

  • @michaelroy1631
    @michaelroy1631 Год назад +20

    I genuinely laughed a few times during this. As a chemist who routinely has to work with electron spin...

    • @jrloayzac
      @jrloayzac Год назад +1

      Fortunately, not a biologist. 😂😊

    • @jrloayzac
      @jrloayzac Год назад +2

      Though I shouldn't joke about it: I am an economist! Not even a real science..😂😂😂

  • @JohnBerry-q1h
    @JohnBerry-q1h 11 месяцев назад

    Sabine, I really appreciated your straightforward statement as to the salient points of Bell's Inequality. I have watched numerous documentaries on the topic that couldn't say anything definitive, even after 50 minutes of monologue.

  • @lanszoominternet
    @lanszoominternet Год назад +22

    Is there a meme out there which Sabine would consider a triple 10? Seems like an impossible task.

    • @andrewharrison8436
      @andrewharrison8436 Год назад +3

      More of an uncertain task - you could only know 1 value with any accuracy.

  • @Seeraphyn
    @Seeraphyn 11 месяцев назад +2

    8:30 It's funny how nowadays every magic plot device is "quantum" when in 50s sci-fi like Foundation it was atomic.

  • @LettersAndNumbers300
    @LettersAndNumbers300 Год назад +4

    I did a double slit experiment once. Was epic, but it wasn’t cheap.

  • @AnomicDeviant
    @AnomicDeviant Год назад +1

    OMG I❤U so much! It’s like you’re reading our minds when it comes to your choice of topics 💕 Superb vid but please don’t forget to take care of yourself 😅 YT is a harsh workplace. I member from your past vid that a 3 weeks holiday is good choice of duration but I will check it again, my curiosity is burning 🔥

  • @LeksDee
    @LeksDee Год назад +8

    This video was a 10 on funniness, a 10 on accuracy and a 10 on effectiveness

  • @Posesso
    @Posesso Год назад +2

    For me it's paradoxically funny that the fact that a physicist comments on Physics memes, already gives all those memes a boost in funny. It's funny to hear somebody talking seriously about memes. Even more if the analyses assumes that teaching could have been a factor during the meme's craft.
    I don't Internet apart from Sabine, and few things, but the school bus is empty. I even assumed it's a crash test.
    Loved this episode

  • @AliDosh
    @AliDosh Год назад +13

    I’m not a physicist, but this video made me search about Bell’s theorem! So it is effective if you want it to be.
    Thank you Sabine, it was a great video as usual ❤️

    • @psychohist
      @psychohist 11 месяцев назад

      The hidden variables meme is actually pretty good; I believe Sabine is prejudiced against it because she believes some modern "hidden variables" theories that don't actually involve local hidden variables.

  • @chrisw1462
    @chrisw1462 Год назад +1

    My favorite quantum meme is the "Help Desk" one you had on one of your videos. Hilarious!

  • @cravenmoore7778
    @cravenmoore7778 Год назад +13

    Excellent visual contrast wonderful content 👍 love your channel 👏👏👀

  • @protocol6
    @protocol6 Год назад +6

    I'm surprised you didn't take the L2 norm of those 3-vector ratings.
    I thought the Einstein "pics or it didn't happen" one was about the flawed neutrino result.
    UPDATE: The meme itself dates back to 2011 (the year of the neutrino controversy) according to an image search and appears on a page with an additional joke:
    “We don’t allow faster than light neutrinos in here” says the bartender.
    A neutrino walks into a bar.

  • @CptTrips89
    @CptTrips89 Год назад +2

    The video I didn’t know I needed!

  • @polyblank73
    @polyblank73 Год назад +6

    Finally, science *with* the gobbledygook.

  • @zacharytellier-hunt7812
    @zacharytellier-hunt7812 Год назад +1

    Love it. Sabine would be fun to have tea with

  • @naptastic
    @naptastic Год назад +3

    I took the Einstein meme totally differently at first, much more literally: How would you even take a picture of something going faster than light? Relativity suggests FTL travel might be unachievable (I'm picking my words very carefully) so having Einstein make a skeptical and somewhat sarcastic remark about it makes enough sense for the joke to work.
    The fact that it's actually accurate but in a completely different (and probably unintentional) way is a delicious irony, and funny in its own right.

  • @hoochygucci9432
    @hoochygucci9432 Год назад +1

    This double stripe occurs when you measure which slit a photon passed through which is the observer effect. That's what the meme is getting at, the monkey is the "observer" which equates to the measuring device which is doing the "observing".

  • @monoamiga
    @monoamiga Год назад +10

    Sabine, you're beyond awesome, as usual, 10/10/10.

  • @lz43p15
    @lz43p15 Год назад +2

    Dear Sabine, if I can I would like to give a rating to your video. Accuracy 10, effectiveness 10 and fun 11. Thanks for everything

  • @Vondoodle
    @Vondoodle Год назад +7

    Science rocks - and so does Sabine

    • @russbell6418
      @russbell6418 Год назад +1

      Hidden geology joke? I’ll give it a three on effectiveness and a 4 on humor. On accuracy, I have to give it a 9 and a one at the same time. It’s Schrödinger’s geology joke.

  • @teleman07
    @teleman07 Год назад +1

    Oh boy. Can't wait for the response from PBS Dr Matt on the double slit diss.

  • @iankane1733
    @iankane1733 Год назад +4

    Great idea for a video! It’s fun and educational at the same time.

  • @GreenE42-en4jr
    @GreenE42-en4jr 11 месяцев назад +1

    I thought the Einstein meme was about the purported discovery that neutrinos could travel faster than the speed of light

  • @offgridphilosophy7959
    @offgridphilosophy7959 Год назад +9

    Sabine cutting through (group think) like a pro. We have to stop following the lead of random internet snarky commenters and think for ourselves. Thank you, Sabine!

  • @MrLikeAsatellite
    @MrLikeAsatellite Год назад +2

    4:23 Oberservation doesn't play a role, it's the measurement. No observer needed.

  • @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC
    @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC Год назад +7

    I think Keith Richards is a better example of the measurement update problem than Schrödinger's Cat.

    • @batesestabrooks3774
      @batesestabrooks3774 Год назад +2

      I'm not sure I understand what you're saying about Keith Richards, but any reference to him is, ipso facto, funny.😂

    • @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC
      @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC Год назад +3

      @@batesestabrooks3774 *"I'm not sure I understand what you're saying about Keith Richards, but any reference to him is, ipso facto, funny."*
      ... He is arguably both "alive and dead" at the same time.

  • @Meskalin_
    @Meskalin_ Год назад

    you are my favorite content creator. i don't understand most of the stuff, but it somehow gives me great comfort knowing there are people out there who have some kind of idea on what and why 😊
    please never stop, sabine.

  • @locowolfie
    @locowolfie Год назад +4

    This made me actually chuckle aloud multiple times Sabine has such a German sense of humor.

  • @ianmoseley9910
    @ianmoseley9910 Год назад +1

    Picture of Schroedinger's dumpster - painted on the side is "empty when full".

  • @alecouto
    @alecouto Год назад +5

    Loved this vídeo! Please do more!! And it'd be great to hear from you more on the atom spin, I'm an economist, not a physicist, and this concept has been a little bit hard to grasp. Your vídeos sparked my curiosity and I've been learning a Lot with You ❤

    • @sabinrawr
      @sabinrawr Год назад +2

      My impression, based on the graphic shown, is that it may be more akin to the direction of a circular wobble. Imagine rolling your wrists "inward" or "outward" while keeping your thumb pointing the same direction at all times. There is definitely some sort of chirality of circuloid motion, but nothing is strictly "spinning" nor is anything being imparted with angular momentum.
      I think "spin" is a deliberately oversimplified way of naming a thing so that physicists and chemists will know the property you mean without inventing a more cumbersome though accurate term.

  • @ProgressiveEconomicsSupporter
    @ProgressiveEconomicsSupporter Год назад +1

    Found your video "suitably unfunny", yet highly accurate and effective! 🙏😎🇩🇪

  • @domsau2
    @domsau2 Год назад +3

    Bonjour. Un neutrino entre dans un bar : "je ne fais que passer !" !

  • @michaelblacktree
    @michaelblacktree Год назад +2

    _"Because physicists really say shit like that."_
    I'll give that a 10 for accuracy, 9 for funniness, and 3 for informativeness. 😛

  • @rafaelznojek8081
    @rafaelznojek8081 Год назад +4

    Hi, I love your broadcast 🤗 Nevertheless, in one case, that with these plates (Schrödinger's cat), I do find it very funny and I think, that the basic idea is being shown correctly. Of course, because I am not a scientist, and had only one semester quantum-mechanics in an engeneering class, I try to explain my view in a very unsophisicated way. Why do I like that meme: the actual view is not after the experiment was performed, either it is not the state before starting the experiment. If you ask the following question: will ever anyone open the door of this cupboard? Then you have the same uncertaintity as having an atom which will decay at an unknown point of time. This state seems to me as being both, as long as no one opens the door. We already know that if we wait very long someone has to open the door (for the cat, the same situation, if you wait too long, the cat will die because of getting old). At that moment your experiment will be executed.
    Of cours, You are right about the glass door showing the state, but the strange feeling of the tradegy (😁 ) which is about to happen after the door opens, and the current stable state, where no tradegy yet happened, gives exactly that strange feeling of having multiple solutions at the same moment. And this seems to me the correct interpretation of the wave-function, before collapsing.
    😁 Hopefully did't get it too wrong?

  • @larrywalsh9939
    @larrywalsh9939 Год назад +2

    I can't wait to find out whether I did or didn't watch that video.

  • @RFC3514
    @RFC3514 Год назад +5

    I think you kind of missed the joke in some of the memes.
    On the Einstein one, the joke is that he's asking for _pictures_ of something that moves faster than light (and therefore can't be photographed), so he's looking smug because he wins either way.
    More broadly, you could say it's a comment on scientific empiricism and epistemology, along the lines of the famous "tree falling in the forest" question (often attributed to Berkeley). Can we only believe things that we have direct evidence of? Forget sound; if a tree falls in the forest and one doesn't "observe" it (meaning no _irrefutable_ record of that fall can be obtained), can it even be said to have _fallen_ at all? But really, I'd say it's just a joke about taking "pics" of something going faster than light.
    On the boyfriend one, I think the joke is indeed about the many-worlds interpretation. So it's not about other states _disappearing,_ it's about all other states getting mad because you didn't observe them, and therefore they don't get to be a part of your "special" universe.

    • @paulgoogol2652
      @paulgoogol2652 Год назад +1

      So all faster than light objects have to move away from all observers? Pretty one-dimensional thinking.

    • @RFC3514
      @RFC3514 Год назад

      @@paulgoogol2652 - I tried to use a curved-beam flash but the photos kept getting polarised along the time axis. Then I tried to use a tachyonic flash, and... let's just say I still have flashbacks.

  • @nightmareTomek
    @nightmareTomek 11 месяцев назад +1

    The school bus is completely empty! Must be at least a 3 on the funny scale.

  • @celwell4
    @celwell4 Год назад +22

    I can't believe you said it wouldn't be funny, I've been chuckling along the whole way, funny, entertaining and educational!

    • @ferd1775
      @ferd1775 Год назад +7

      That's because it was funny and not funny at the same time, but you didn't know til you laughed 😂

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 Год назад +4

      @@ferd1775 Heinsenberg's fun uncertainty principle

    • @eliascorrea8573
      @eliascorrea8573 Год назад +6

      @@LuisSierra42 should have wrote it as fun-certainty

  • @allanlees299
    @allanlees299 Год назад +1

    As someone who at age four objected strenuously to the Goldilocks story because obviously the large bowl of porridge would be the hottest, the small bowl would actually be the coldest, and the mid-sized bowl would be the "just right" temperature - contrary to the story which magically made the small bowl defeat thermodynamics. I didn't know about thermodynamics at age four, but I did understand enough about size and cooling to be outraged by the duplicity of the author. So, of course, I absolutely adore your take-down of pseudo-quantum-related memes. Thanks so much!

    • @chiaracoetzee
      @chiaracoetzee Год назад

      Well, only if they all started at the same temperature! Perhaps Baby Bear's porridge was poured from the original large pot of porridge at a later time. Perhaps because Baby Bear woke up later. Also air currents could be a factor, perhaps Mama Bear's porridge happened to be sitting right by an open window, and so cooled much faster than Baby Bear's.

  • @SlowToe
    @SlowToe Год назад +8

    😂 love this, more please.

  • @0xCAFEF00D
    @0xCAFEF00D 9 месяцев назад +1

    1:24
    Captioning it "on his way to discover quantum physics" is a funnier caption.

  • @RFC3514
    @RFC3514 Год назад +4

    The double-slit experiment acquires a whole new layer of meaning if you use one of Gwyneth Paltrow's candles as the light source.

  • @AprilJMoon
    @AprilJMoon Год назад +2

    The guy who fixed my car was tiny. Was he a quantum mechanic?

  • @Thomas-gk42
    @Thomas-gk42 Год назад +14

    Sabine is a queen of QM, ten points in all the three categotires for this video🙃

  • @silverthorngoodtree5533
    @silverthorngoodtree5533 Год назад +1

    Without Quantum Mechanics, we would not have, iPhone, computers and anything related to them.

  • @CliveBagley
    @CliveBagley Год назад +3

    Hilarious! 10/10 for pedantry

  • @AndreasRavnestad
    @AndreasRavnestad Год назад +2

    I think this is more like a meme review rather than a reaction video, and I think that's great. Would love to see more of this type of content :)

  • @robertbloch1063
    @robertbloch1063 Год назад +18

    I am awfully sorry, but I actually enjoyed this video. Terribly sorry for failing your expectations ;)
    Thank you!
    On the nerd side of things: 10 most popular by what statistics?

  • @benriggs3108
    @benriggs3108 Год назад +1

    after 90 years in the box, I'm certain the cat is dead.

    • @Thomas-gk42
      @Thomas-gk42 Год назад

      Yep, no one let it out in solving the measurement problem. Best candidate for that: Dr. Sabine

  • @huosb1768
    @huosb1768 Год назад +3

    Sabine- what a bit of humor😂🎯🧑🏾‍🏫
    Im sad that both the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and the Nobel do not (yet) include an international physics humor subcategory. Have a cup of coffee. Brilliant

  • @katgirl3000
    @katgirl3000 Год назад +1

    Loved the video!

  • @Hochspitz
    @Hochspitz Год назад +22

    No matter what Sabine's video is about, she can't help but teach. Another enjoyable video!

  • @LukeGaughan
    @LukeGaughan Год назад +1

    This is the most Sabine video

  • @sonic2000gr
    @sonic2000gr Год назад +15

    We now desperately need memes with Sabine, they'd be totally sick.

  • @MaryAnnNytowl
    @MaryAnnNytowl Год назад +2

    Sabine saying she's not funny in this video = Sabine being funny in this video. Pretty sure that's gotta be a law of physics, too, dunnit?
    Still, I loved it, and MUST leave a like and comment for the care and feeding of the Almighty Algorithm!

  • @RFC3514
    @RFC3514 Год назад +6

    The "Schrödinger's Plates" one would be more accurate (albeit cryptic) if the door were opaque. In fact, I think if Magritte were alive today, he'd probably be inspired to make a simple painting of a wooden cupboard and title it "Schrödinger's Plates".

    • @rnilsson8063
      @rnilsson8063 Год назад +1

      Or even Ceci n'est pas ... 😝

    • @RFC3514
      @RFC3514 Год назад

      @@rnilsson8063 ... un chat?

  • @michaelmcphee2006
    @michaelmcphee2006 9 месяцев назад +1

    You're mistaken Sabine. This is the funniest quantum physics video I've ever seen.

  • @happyelephant5384
    @happyelephant5384 Год назад +6

    Memes are both funny and not until Sabine observes it

  • @northernkoschei
    @northernkoschei Год назад +1

    Sabine, you are truly a global treasure. Whole vid was amazing, and I thought your ratings were very accurate!

  • @nabormendonca5742
    @nabormendonca5742 Год назад +6

    The funniest part is when Sabine says this Meme reaction video comes with a quiz including references! 😂

  • @mic9657
    @mic9657 Год назад +1

    13:32 "I think that's how quantum paint works indeed!" haha

  • @kbjerke
    @kbjerke Год назад +6

    I *LOVE* your sense of humour, Sabine! Thank you for the video!

  • @bm90025
    @bm90025 Год назад +1

    There's a meme of a cat that looks like a gangster -- eye patch, unshaven, smoking, with the caption, "Tell Shrodinger I not dead."

  • @oleran4569
    @oleran4569 Год назад +3

    If there were a Nobel for Critical thinking Sabine would likely win it and discover new paradoxes through analysis of her "win".

  • @rayc7192
    @rayc7192 Год назад +1

    6:45 not sure she got the joke. Yes, you can "see" the plates are not broken but the measurement only takes place when you open the door which is when you actually "see" what happens.

  • @catserver8577
    @catserver8577 Год назад +5

    Love your version of the train one. No, train accidents are not funny, but it is still a good example of my answer for many quantum discussions (reality wins). Not a scientist, not sponsored by one. LOL.

  • @grndzro777
    @grndzro777 9 месяцев назад +1

    I lost it at the Schrodinger plates. That's hilarious.

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations Год назад +3

    Thanks a bunch, Sabine! 😂
    About the puppet monkey, isn't it about the experiment with or without a detector (to observe what the heck happens at the slits)? 🤔
    Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

  • @Thomas-gk42
    @Thomas-gk42 Год назад +1

    "not everthing with butter and flies produces butterflies"🦋😂