• @[email protected]
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    2911 hours ago

    This is something that I noticed is hard to understand to most people. My SO got served a video of the double slit experiment and thought it was like magic, until I tried to explain to him that at this scale, “observing” doesn’t just mean looking at it. Observation makes you part of the system and causes the system to change.

    • @cynar
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      79 hours ago

      That is part of what bugs me.

      Quantum mechanics isn’t magical or unknowable. It’s just an area of physics where some of our base assumptions/approximations break down. It’s not even that hard to wrap your head around, it just seems most people don’t want to try.

      • @niktemadur
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        23 hours ago

        Quantum mechanics is an area of physics that leans on measurement as a central concept. What things are doing between measurements is not its’ concern, and don’t even stop and think about it, you’ll go nuts, just shut up and calculate!

    • @systemglitch
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      310 hours ago

      There is a magic to perception nothing else can replicate. I’m pretty sure awareness is existence, so it’s attention has to change reality.

      • @cynar
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        49 hours ago

        Perception and observation are different things. Air molecules can be “observers” when looking at electrons etc.