Liquidacid23 said:
Scrustle said:
Super position. How can something be in more than one place at the same time? And how does observation change where it is? Are the particles camera shy or something? I just can't wrap my head around it.
quantum mechanics are not for the sane to understand
also superposition is one word
Yes... Pretty much... I like quantum mechanics, because it throws common sense out the window, stomps on it, then spits in it's face.
Still, it's useful for taking the wind out of people that think everything about the way the world works should be obvious and simple...
One of the best quotes about quantum mechanics has to be this one though:
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics... You... Don't understand quantum mechanics."
Still, the logic of it is... Well, let's put it this way:
Normal logic:
This statement is true.
This statement is false.
A statement is either true or false. We may not be entirely sure which it is, but it
is one or the other.
Quantum logic:
This statement is both true
and false.
When we measure it, it will be one or the other. But until that point it will be all possible things at once.
In other words, quantum mechanics, if applied to the world at large implies something quite bizarre.
We tend to think things are false until proven otherwise.
Some of us may be inclined to think things can be true until proven otherwise, but even those people don't usually think contradictory statements can both be true.
Quantum mechanics implies not only that things can be true until proven otherwise, but that ALL options are literally true at the same time, even if they contradict.
That would be bad enough, but it then goes on to imply that if we try and find and answer, there will only be one correct answer.
But which one, depends on what we do while measuring it.
If that isn't enough to melt your brain, I don't know what is... (I mean, every possible answer is true at once, even contradictions... Yet at the same time only one answer is true if you measure it... Also, impossible things happen all the time, as long as they have a probability of happening greater than 0...)
Yeah, good luck getting that to make sense... Just as well that so far as we know it only applies to things at very small scales.
If day-to-day life worked that way... Ouch...