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Anonymous A started this discussion 4 hours ago#135,063
There's no evidence that a particle is in two states at the same time until you look.
It's a myth, this language was used in models to talk about when the state was undetermined. No physical test proved it was in both before being measured, because any test would measure it. Physics is based on actual experiments.
> muh double slit
Those experiments did not fire a single photon, they fired many and the photons were more likely to hit some areas than others.
A galton board shows the same thing with marbles, but you wouldn't say the marble is is in two states at once.
> muh shrödinger!
He pubicly opposed the copenhagen interpretation and gave the example of a cat to mock it.
Mr. Black Boi joined in and replied with this 2 hours ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,435,893
Don’t superpositions exist at a macroscopic scale though? Like if you have two waves, one wave is 1Hz and the other wave is 2Hz, they have a resonance so they will interfere with each other in a superposition?
Mr. Black Boi triple-posted this 2 hours ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,435,895
Apparently everybody just assumed that things can’t quantum tunnel across barriers at a macroscopic scale so nobody tried it because it was so obviously not possible then one guy tried it and it worked somehow.
Mr. Black Boi quadruple-posted this 2 hours ago, 6 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,435,896
And now that I think about it, if you can have a superposition of waves, and a cosine is a wave, then a fourier transform in lossy image compression is just a superposition of cosines that removes the more subtle cosines so that you can keep most of the image details while saving space.