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

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  • @tomalmog8738
    @tomalmog8738 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4019

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

    • @rcho223
      @rcho223 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Tom Almog 😂😂 ok I’ll admit I kinda laughed

    • @sandipambulkar47
      @sandipambulkar47 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      OMG man!

    • @rtendotapiwa306
      @rtendotapiwa306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @mariafe7050
      @mariafe7050 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      To be AND not to be

    • @wamko8493
      @wamko8493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Confused cat noises

  • @noahquiles5791
    @noahquiles5791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5704

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

    • @deus2570
      @deus2570 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

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

    • @alchemist2048
      @alchemist2048 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      Scooby : Dobeedoobeedoo

    • @Anonymous-kw7ls
      @Anonymous-kw7ls 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@alchemist2048
      😂😂😂

    • @aditya-rt4zb
      @aditya-rt4zb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      answer of every great question is a paradox

    • @mars9842
      @mars9842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @simonc7221
    @simonc7221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20837

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

    • @mariafe7050
      @mariafe7050 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2022

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

    • @mr.knightthedetective7435
      @mr.knightthedetective7435 4 ปีที่แล้ว +975

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

    • @walterblanchard2092
      @walterblanchard2092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      Schroeder cat poem

    • @carolinedelafuente7251
      @carolinedelafuente7251 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      @@mr.knightthedetective7435 r/woooooosh

  • @varvaramir
    @varvaramir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9060

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

    • @mikemondano3624
      @mikemondano3624 2 ปีที่แล้ว +400

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @cowllama1353
      @cowllama1353 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Valid

    • @Listereen
      @Listereen ปีที่แล้ว +3

      bababoeey whats bs

    • @duckduckshoes6393
      @duckduckshoes6393 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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.

  • @nebulaanishh
    @nebulaanishh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22951

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

    • @farwakhan4423
      @farwakhan4423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3136

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

    • @GAMINGWITHCHINAR
      @GAMINGWITHCHINAR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +838

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

    • @jumanahidris2973
      @jumanahidris2973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Nice!

    • @aarambhverma1550
      @aarambhverma1550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +360

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

    • @jumanahidris2973
      @jumanahidris2973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @peeps hi whyever not?

  • @jessicajayes8326
    @jessicajayes8326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1162

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      hmm

    • @leitecunha
      @leitecunha 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      A fine joke! 😄

    • @dylan8443
      @dylan8443 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Big Brain time

    • @rasputingonzales6030
      @rasputingonzales6030 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Okay, that was pretty good.

    • @rasputingonzales6030
      @rasputingonzales6030 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @arandomjoe9749
    @arandomjoe9749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8842

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

    • @watertommyz
      @watertommyz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +669

      Yesnt

    • @Di00rt
      @Di00rt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +281

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

    • @adoritowithlegs6468
      @adoritowithlegs6468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +281

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@watertommyz I hate you 😂

    • @whotfdidthis
      @whotfdidthis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      damn fr!

  • @katia7440
    @katia7440 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1217

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      The reason why you should be afraid of physics and chemistry

    • @safaeit
      @safaeit ปีที่แล้ว +99

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      ​@@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 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I really dont understand intellectual but ok

    • @GRT999
      @GRT999 ปีที่แล้ว +51

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

  • @Shereigna
    @Shereigna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4164

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

    • @25arushbhatnagar56
      @25arushbhatnagar56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Zenorita copied

    • @verticalflyingb737
      @verticalflyingb737 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@25arushbhatnagar56 Copied who? Cmon' man don't leave us on a cliffhanger

    • @Shereigna
      @Shereigna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@25arushbhatnagar56 Yup

    • @zerovalue2961
      @zerovalue2961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cant believe I laughed at this

    • @parsnipguy2986
      @parsnipguy2986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      this grammar is killing me

  • @solutionghostsimple6470
    @solutionghostsimple6470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5375

    Wanted Schrödinger's cat : Dead and Alive

    • @mattghostly5261
      @mattghostly5261 5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Simple Cormac this would make a cool t-shirt

    • @colhany
      @colhany 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      This comment is underrated

    • @EpicFuckingCoolGuy69420
      @EpicFuckingCoolGuy69420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I HAVE A BOOK THAT SAYS THAT!!!!!

    • @quixoticat7658
      @quixoticat7658 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      please make this into a poster

    • @excitedcat9517
      @excitedcat9517 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Last seen inside a box

  • @nickc.4070
    @nickc.4070 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10588

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

    • @stephanier5220
      @stephanier5220 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      lmao

    • @anirudhsharma5211
      @anirudhsharma5211 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      😂😂😂

    • @majdayoub2344
      @majdayoub2344 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Good news OR bad news

    • @zazaeater43
      @zazaeater43 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Doctor: ur cat is half dead and half alive
      Schrödinger: That means my cat is in a superposition

    • @phenomenalphysics3548
      @phenomenalphysics3548 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Orion D. Hunter lmao😂❤️❤️❤️

  • @JustSomeDinosaurPerson
    @JustSomeDinosaurPerson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2702

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      So is the cat ded or alive? Am damb

    • @Skanda1111
      @Skanda1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Thanks. Your comment made it very easy to understand.

    • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
      @Rspknlikeab0ssxd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +195

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @@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.

  • @jimmyjordan5048
    @jimmyjordan5048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4729

    Guess what the comment was by reading replies.

    • @rtendotapiwa306
      @rtendotapiwa306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Yes! And No! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @taleahnelson7855
      @taleahnelson7855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      dont call me out like that... 😅😂

    • @isellseagullsfor1dollar729
      @isellseagullsfor1dollar729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @jimmyjordan5048
      @jimmyjordan5048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Maselek yeah.

  • @dogl0ver03
    @dogl0ver03 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27439

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

    • @vik24oct1991
      @vik24oct1991 8 ปีที่แล้ว +886

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +1593

      The joke
      Your head

    • @zachzent8287
      @zachzent8287 8 ปีที่แล้ว +405

      Renee Claude My dog is named Curiosity

    • @saintpluto5613
      @saintpluto5613 8 ปีที่แล้ว +315

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +135

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

  • @johnyboy228
    @johnyboy228 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8461

    Everybody at schrodinger’s funeral: *hmmm*

    • @frazzydoof770
      @frazzydoof770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +623

      both dead and alive until the casket is opened

    • @ureehueurv
      @ureehueurv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      *DUN DUN DUUUUN*

    • @greenlite37
      @greenlite37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +390

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

    • @hydro3672
      @hydro3672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

  • @grandpastories1483
    @grandpastories1483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +445

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

    • @ggnishvanth3467
      @ggnishvanth3467 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Underrated, That is actually smart

    • @geenethmethmin2487
      @geenethmethmin2487 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@ggnishvanth34672yrs ago 😅

    • @silentkiller1412
      @silentkiller1412 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Read this in Jeremy Clarkson's voice

    • @Tsundoku_xX
      @Tsundoku_xX 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@silentkiller1412 OMG STOP THATS SO FIRE NO

    • @vedanirvana111
      @vedanirvana111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lmao, not nice

  • @thatguitardude4307
    @thatguitardude4307 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6203

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

    • @basil3630
      @basil3630 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      *Nice Meme*

    • @flowerondiscord4254
      @flowerondiscord4254 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      *Maybe, maybe not*

    • @humbertojimmy
      @humbertojimmy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Schrodinger's cat went criminal. Now he is wanted, dead *and* alive!

    • @SRoy-rk3tj
      @SRoy-rk3tj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Should’ve said Well yes AND actually no

    • @thatguitardude4307
      @thatguitardude4307 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@humbertojimmy Good song

  • @SebNeverMiss
    @SebNeverMiss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12455

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

    • @filmyfatafatIndia
      @filmyfatafatIndia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      😂😂

    • @APXSTUDIO
      @APXSTUDIO 3 ปีที่แล้ว +468

      Ok cat is alive

    • @ibrahimshaheen1
      @ibrahimshaheen1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +335

      Actually it's more like observing which can be by hearing, seeing........etc

    • @austin3789
      @austin3789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      This is the best!

    • @amansinghrollno-7167
      @amansinghrollno-7167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      Proceeds to shoot the cat

  • @abidbourdi6877
    @abidbourdi6877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9654

    I will act like I understood everything

    • @whodeyharambe5776
      @whodeyharambe5776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      If anyone says they fully understand ...
      You lie

    • @whodeyharambe5776
      @whodeyharambe5776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @rodmaiquez726
      @rodmaiquez726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You need to act, to understand something

    • @bocar4127
      @bocar4127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It’s yes and no at the same time

    • @ShahidAhmed07
      @ShahidAhmed07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @aditisharma66
    @aditisharma66 ปีที่แล้ว +198

    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 :)

    • @nescafegold8119
      @nescafegold8119 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good review lol❤

  • @Stitchpuppy01
    @Stitchpuppy01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7905

    I understood the word "cat."

  • @gabrielbondoc863
    @gabrielbondoc863 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2594

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Gabriel Bondoc in an odd way that makes sense.

    • @krisg4771
      @krisg4771 8 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Schrodingers subject

    • @PR0Z0MBIE9877
      @PR0Z0MBIE9877 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      You understand it bro

    • @mk_rexx
      @mk_rexx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Every time Schrödinger's cat is explained

    • @andyfung7878
      @andyfung7878 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      love your comment

  • @bball33g
    @bball33g 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4256

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 9 ปีที่แล้ว +239

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

    • @jadeharley844
      @jadeharley844 9 ปีที่แล้ว +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 9 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Jade Harley Classic case of experiment measurement error

    • @spectrum6474
      @spectrum6474 9 ปีที่แล้ว +103

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

  • @dragon_mind1254
    @dragon_mind1254 2 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Isn't it a phenomenon

    • @elonmuskito7249
      @elonmuskito7249 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ohh yea the good old double slit Exp

    • @mohamedalhusni6255
      @mohamedalhusni6255 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      is it because the observer affects the outcome itself ?

    • @mae-oz3eb
      @mae-oz3eb ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @thehalfbloodprince-nm8uk
      @thehalfbloodprince-nm8uk ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@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

  • @teddyvia7134
    @teddyvia7134 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1692

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

    • @luna-hu5uw
      @luna-hu5uw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

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

    • @supremekiller2477
      @supremekiller2477 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      they were and they werent

    • @toby2668
      @toby2668 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Hi VSauce, Michael here

    • @jacobnewman2494
      @jacobnewman2494 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @qualily8286
      @qualily8286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @caytlin100
    @caytlin100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5520

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +456

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

    • @jc.maccount5945
      @jc.maccount5945 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      You have future kid 😂

    • @alexmercer6585
      @alexmercer6585 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      Mom response :👊👊👊🖐👊

    • @revelbangtanexo2642
      @revelbangtanexo2642 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      😂😂 lmaoooo

    • @thanhcongnguyen181
      @thanhcongnguyen181 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

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

  • @wan8234
    @wan8234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1640

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

    • @lgitsx9665
      @lgitsx9665 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

    • @bobthetomato7005
      @bobthetomato7005 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      BUT I SURVIVED

    • @CEO_of_Kostco
      @CEO_of_Kostco 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didn’t think I would see you here, Major

    • @anthonyl6060
      @anthonyl6060 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      James G Atleast I know where the meme came from

    • @manali6402
      @manali6402 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I died and I survived

  •  ปีที่แล้ว +80

    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 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what was the definition

    •  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is so beautiful philosophically as well.

  • @BIGFACTSENT
    @BIGFACTSENT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2791

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

    • @antiquarian1773
      @antiquarian1773 6 ปีที่แล้ว +237

      or the universe exist because you were born O-O

    • @bonjovy2720
      @bonjovy2720 6 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      The best short explanation of quantom mechanics, thanks

    • @ditinct8894
      @ditinct8894 6 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      The moon doesn't exist until you look at it

    • @antiquarian1773
      @antiquarian1773 6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

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

    • @ditinct8894
      @ditinct8894 6 ปีที่แล้ว +123

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

  • @keertiathalye5793
    @keertiathalye5793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5023

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

    • @mayankjain04
      @mayankjain04 4 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Yesn't

    • @chitrikart2328
      @chitrikart2328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      What..wgat about the sea

    • @pritiguria7717
      @pritiguria7717 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Dark statement

    • @ImBeange
      @ImBeange 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      If you know, you know

    • @whackyscientist4879
      @whackyscientist4879 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      One can do whatever he wills
      One can't will whatever he wills

  • @lemonade.valley
    @lemonade.valley 5 ปีที่แล้ว +510

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

  • @asparkdeity8717
    @asparkdeity8717 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    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!

    • @vanessas2363
      @vanessas2363 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brilliant. Stick in

  • @thewalkingbread706
    @thewalkingbread706 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1287

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

    • @samar5838
      @samar5838 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Stolen comment

    • @banjomcgee6333
      @banjomcgee6333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @suhasop4919
      @suhasop4919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yesn't

    • @bored2096
      @bored2096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@banjomcgee6333 dayum

    • @jahsac4571
      @jahsac4571 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perhaps

  • @hassanaly4838
    @hassanaly4838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +563

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

    • @raenashaikh3377
      @raenashaikh3377 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @daniellandoe8069
    @daniellandoe8069 5 ปีที่แล้ว +458

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

    • @nsbhater
      @nsbhater 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @humanbeing1429
      @humanbeing1429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @angelicasysnila5476
      @angelicasysnila5476 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’re being transphobic

    • @drosophilamelanogaster3121
      @drosophilamelanogaster3121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually yes but no

  • @colby722
    @colby722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @ketuu4057
    @ketuu4057 5 ปีที่แล้ว +485

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

    • @ladymarcy7830
      @ladymarcy7830 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I understood one word: cat
      All others:🗿

    • @Monochromicornicopia
      @Monochromicornicopia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @walterwhite3372
    @walterwhite3372 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6952

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

    • @doseofrisher1162
      @doseofrisher1162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      But actually both

    • @Gozi101
      @Gozi101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      yesn't

    • @walterwhite3372
      @walterwhite3372 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Gozi101 lol

    • @KurtisC93
      @KurtisC93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

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

    • @Akhil-_-
      @Akhil-_- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Well no, but actually yes.

  • @lukebarth5424
    @lukebarth5424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +840

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

    • @kevinc.cucumber3697
      @kevinc.cucumber3697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😄😄 LOL

    • @pjjustice5014
      @pjjustice5014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

    • @sigsauer_firearms
      @sigsauer_firearms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @pjb8295
      @pjb8295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @gbzorro
    @gbzorro ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @lost1027
    @lost1027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      lmao same

    • @solonada9602
      @solonada9602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      We are mere average people.

    • @presauced
      @presauced 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@solonada9602 Yep, sadly.

    • @solonada9602
      @solonada9602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 TH-cam subscribers.

    • @presauced
      @presauced 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

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

  • @suryahr307
    @suryahr307 4 ปีที่แล้ว +791

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      TIME TO DO THIS

    • @suryahr307
      @suryahr307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @vineet3269
      @vineet3269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @shauryagauniyal9125
      @shauryagauniyal9125 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Boom!! You passed the interview 🙌

  • @khangbui3914
    @khangbui3914 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1657

    Well, I’m alive but dead inside

  • @ingaaloisia490
    @ingaaloisia490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @AnthonyL0401
    @AnthonyL0401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10526

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +363

      ah, classic schrodinger, always being so mischievous

    • @areenhashemi
      @areenhashemi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Underrated comment

    • @lowercaseguy3578
      @lowercaseguy3578 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @annikachristensen4323
      @annikachristensen4323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      LOL I'm dead 😂

  • @ironvanguard7219
    @ironvanguard7219 6 ปีที่แล้ว +595

    I could understand it until he said “superposition”

    • @firefoxyt6600
      @firefoxyt6600 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I could understand it until he said "Australian"

    • @jaycheda3232
      @jaycheda3232 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@firefoxyt6600 i couldnt understand

    • @firefoxyt6600
      @firefoxyt6600 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @jaycheda3232
      @jaycheda3232 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@firefoxyt6600 everything

    • @Monochromicornicopia
      @Monochromicornicopia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +926

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Lmao same

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wvaelength IS the universe...

    • @jamespfitz
      @jamespfitz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @ivamanral989
      @ivamanral989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @saanvisharma2126
    @saanvisharma2126 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +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!

  • @JasonJacksonJames
    @JasonJacksonJames 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1087

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

  • @theminingstar4672
    @theminingstar4672 5 ปีที่แล้ว +936

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

    • @aadipattanaik7778
      @aadipattanaik7778 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Mining Star woah

    • @YesIAmPitri
      @YesIAmPitri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Instructions unclear,became mariah carey

    • @ej-jz5rc
      @ej-jz5rc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol

    • @huedotexe8785
      @huedotexe8785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is my favorite way to explain it

    • @danielstrawe5118
      @danielstrawe5118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      whats the point im still hungry either way

  • @sombrerodog9699
    @sombrerodog9699 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3213

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

    • @cheetahpiper6422
      @cheetahpiper6422 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love this!!!

    • @nightgal5497
      @nightgal5497 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

    • @serenitybowers6422
      @serenitybowers6422 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @earfors
      @earfors 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sombrero dog your likes have reached 911

  • @Tanmay5616
    @Tanmay5616 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @Leroy0070
      @Leroy0070 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @enigma6703
    @enigma6703 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2583

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

    • @matthewclifford7217
      @matthewclifford7217 8 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

    • @eyeheisenberg2278
      @eyeheisenberg2278 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @jacksonstein809
    @jacksonstein809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +475

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

    • @ainzoshle457
      @ainzoshle457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I thought it was Christopher Colombus.

  • @kayd4128
    @kayd4128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +703

    no one:
    Schrödinger: *hehe unboxing time*

    • @ongz..5908
      @ongz..5908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤧

    • @breguera77
      @breguera77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      M-m-m-money shot

  • @calebbrowning4328
    @calebbrowning4328 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @illunis8273
    @illunis8273 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2969

    is the cat dead or alive?
    Shrödinger: yes.

    • @ashtoncasedy3237
      @ashtoncasedy3237 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lol what?

    • @ashtoncasedy3237
      @ashtoncasedy3237 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Ah I got the reference, it's hide the pain harold

    • @anandhua.b4589
      @anandhua.b4589 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Yes but actually no

    • @finnhartworth255
      @finnhartworth255 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Inclusiveor

    • @nknitinkush
      @nknitinkush 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      We never know or
      We could nevee know
      Until and unless we make an observation

  • @zacharynunn6532
    @zacharynunn6532 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1083

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

    • @thanasgoga7127
      @thanasgoga7127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Murderer: Am I a joke to you

    • @pmtclock
      @pmtclock 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Me: dies of laughter

    • @shxtney
      @shxtney 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      plot twist

    • @thisguyispeculiar
      @thisguyispeculiar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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

  • @ayomibhumi9356
    @ayomibhumi9356 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2238

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao

    • @maacpiash
      @maacpiash 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @maximtiburziano872
      @maximtiburziano872 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

    • @svendjensen9365
      @svendjensen9365 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @sundareshvenugopal6575
    @sundareshvenugopal6575 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @sam_k
    @sam_k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6708

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

    • @magentas6467
      @magentas6467 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1583

      you're not but you are

    • @Tiandesta
      @Tiandesta 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yup

    • @ethanblevins1116
      @ethanblevins1116 5 ปีที่แล้ว +454

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

    • @05xpeter
      @05xpeter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +396

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

    • @jellyfishcluster
      @jellyfishcluster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      You’re not supposed to understand quantum physics

  • @05xpeter
    @05xpeter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +804

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

    • @Derekivery
      @Derekivery 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Very VERY true!!!!!

    • @shaunaksawargaonkar7814
      @shaunaksawargaonkar7814 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @00ryanm00
      @00ryanm00 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @00ryanm00
      @00ryanm00 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @Selwynn
    @Selwynn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +988

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

  • @bluejesus105
    @bluejesus105 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This means we should close our loved once in a box and leave them there and as long as we dont open it, they are gonna be with us forever.

    • @Kyrelel
      @Kyrelel 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well done, you just invented a coffin

  • @anuragarya6416
    @anuragarya6416 7 ปีที่แล้ว +328

    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 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂 true

    • @ally462
      @ally462 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welcome to physics

    • @serenitybowers6422
      @serenitybowers6422 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @sudhanshuyadav19
    @sudhanshuyadav19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +784

    Schrodinger's cat
    Wanted
    Dead or alive

    • @carlosmspk
      @carlosmspk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

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

    • @hereicomeiamcinnamon951
      @hereicomeiamcinnamon951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@carlosmspk very sog champ moment :(

    • @areenhashemi
      @areenhashemi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Underrated comment

    • @krokiety5712
      @krokiety5712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @hertzair1186
      @hertzair1186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ...saw that on a Tshirt

  • @srikarkomanduri2933
    @srikarkomanduri2933 6 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    Just use a transparent box damn it

    • @HealthHubss
      @HealthHubss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @bretsheeley4034
      @bretsheeley4034 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Srikar Komanduri There's no point then

  • @colinwhite5355
    @colinwhite5355 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @Theninjaprasad
    @Theninjaprasad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4908

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

    • @alfmea
      @alfmea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Makes sense.

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 3 ปีที่แล้ว +229

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

    • @allthebrighttplaces
      @allthebrighttplaces 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Manfried the Man joined the chat

    • @schensho6567
      @schensho6567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

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

    • @aswinlal5341
      @aswinlal5341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Rick and Morty stuff 🤣

  • @peepiepo
    @peepiepo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +889

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @DanielAjoyB
      @DanielAjoyB 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      the cat was very small.

    • @kendawnkarish1434
      @kendawnkarish1434 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I knew the cat was alive. It was purrrrrring.

    • @yeopyeop4098
      @yeopyeop4098 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Heisemberg is incorrect, correct answer....

  • @varunshenai3811
    @varunshenai3811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +260

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

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie th-cam.com/video/I40WiQLhlgk/w-d-xo.html

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @RITVIK which one?

  • @Glacierrune
    @Glacierrune ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @Churre1
    @Churre1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +352

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

    • @KelvenOne
      @KelvenOne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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?

  • @anvit6363
    @anvit6363 5 ปีที่แล้ว +297

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

  • @dalesmith4609
    @dalesmith4609 5 ปีที่แล้ว +418

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @neonz2712
      @neonz2712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We must never open the coffin!

    • @jakesamuel5197
      @jakesamuel5197 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @jakesamuel5197
      @jakesamuel5197 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe he already passed through another dimension.

  • @ChanwooPark-me1wc
    @ChanwooPark-me1wc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    이번 영상으로 슈뢰딩거의 고양이 실험을 제대로 이해한 기분이 듭니다. 각종 미디어에서 많이 다루는 주제이지만 대부분의 사람들이 잘못 알고 있는 실험인데, 저 같이 양자역학을 공부하지 않은 사람도 이해할 수 있게 영상을 만들어주셔서 감사합니다. 좋은 영상 감사합니다!

    • @dougdoan9190
      @dougdoan9190 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is either chinese or english.. or both

    • @anneclaudia1491
      @anneclaudia1491 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dougdoan9190 both wrong cuz its actually korean

    • @dougdoan9190
      @dougdoan9190 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anneclaudia1491 you just broke physics

    • @oofer754
      @oofer754 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dougdoan9190 This is rasist and not.

  • @heyitsshakil
    @heyitsshakil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2069

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

  • @mycabbages6264
    @mycabbages6264 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

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

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie th-cam.com/video/I40WiQLhlgk/w-d-xo.html

  • @cking4869
    @cking4869 5 ปีที่แล้ว +614

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

    • @neilrowe119
      @neilrowe119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Worth taking note of i reckon

    • @juanli4153
      @juanli4153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea

  • @janhvinarayan1633
    @janhvinarayan1633 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @mirelholban8013
    @mirelholban8013 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1424

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

    • @killyourself7947
      @killyourself7947 8 ปีที่แล้ว +172

      Science is high and dumb.
      Amen.

    • @yashsrivastava5227
      @yashsrivastava5227 7 ปีที่แล้ว +160

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

    • @harmonicpsyche8313
      @harmonicpsyche8313 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Iah Coron *Not high enough. FTFY

    • @yungdani9018
      @yungdani9018 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      both tbh

    • @texasray5237
      @texasray5237 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too smart.

  • @wj8003
    @wj8003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +308

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

    • @Phoenixblue.
      @Phoenixblue. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And if u don't then don't

    • @althealligator1467
      @althealligator1467 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @kathy582
      @kathy582 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wjimenez923 *all Big Bang theory fans wave*

    • @marcoanonymous8434
      @marcoanonymous8434 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like his thinking!

  • @cringecomputerscientist
    @cringecomputerscientist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +271

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

  • @BenS128
    @BenS128 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The 1st time I heard this theory I didn’t get it so I forgot it. The 2nd time I heard it I completely understood it in a few different ways. It’s Genius.

  • @spjr99
    @spjr99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @DoodleDan
    @DoodleDan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2743

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

    • @royaamuzumaki3891
      @royaamuzumaki3891 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +293

      The universe has a secret and it wants to keep it

    • @igglyy3776
      @igglyy3776 5 ปีที่แล้ว +135

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

    • @MrMasterKaio
      @MrMasterKaio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @user-nd3dh4ok3n
    @user-nd3dh4ok3n 4 ปีที่แล้ว +244

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

    • @jofx4051
      @jofx4051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I'm watching and not watching at the same time

    • @deedevon7468
      @deedevon7468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wholesome comment 😁

    • @elmo9097
      @elmo9097 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      exactly but also not

    • @dheerajmishra1741
      @dheerajmishra1741 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They have to see to be sure

  • @mattfrenden1000
    @mattfrenden1000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @morganzachlfich4309
    @morganzachlfich4309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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"

    • @cupcakelulu2147
      @cupcakelulu2147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      omg 😂

    • @stephaniecarrow4898
      @stephaniecarrow4898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😄😄😄😄 Best joke on this stream! 🏆🏆

    • @winkmurder
      @winkmurder 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Lystchan
      @Lystchan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't open it mom, it's quantum physics

  • @Kebabrulle4869
    @Kebabrulle4869 8 ปีที่แล้ว +224

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

  • @crystalclear5287
    @crystalclear5287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    This concept is absurd! Yet so simple at the same time

  • @Psycandy
    @Psycandy ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Schrödinger's cat once said 'if you don't know which version is true, then you must accept both as true, or both as untrue, equally' - no, wait, that was Schrödinger's dog. He didn't have a cat.

  • @mancheee646
    @mancheee646 4 ปีที่แล้ว +148

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

    • @IIOOOAndikaYudhistira
      @IIOOOAndikaYudhistira 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me : Try to find out

    • @nidhithakkar635
      @nidhithakkar635 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😆😆

    • @nidhithakkar635
      @nidhithakkar635 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@IIOOOAndikaYudhistira 😆👍

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie th-cam.com/video/I40WiQLhlgk/w-d-xo.html

    • @cynthiakinsley8505
      @cynthiakinsley8505 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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....

  • @TheRealHankSchrader.
    @TheRealHankSchrader. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +522

    Schrödinger's smiley
    :(:
    a masterpiece describing my everyday state lol

    • @wideeric1
      @wideeric1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      dang underrated comment.

    • @rmdoomi04
      @rmdoomi04 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sushants the shirt:((

    • @TheRealHankSchrader.
      @TheRealHankSchrader. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rmdoomi04 yeah :(

    • @rmdoomi04
      @rmdoomi04 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tshirt*

    • @luna-hu5uw
      @luna-hu5uw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wideeric1 I'm sorry but I had to comment on your remarkable username
      it's *_b e a u t i f u l_*

  • @Borderlands2iscool
    @Borderlands2iscool 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1258

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

    • @taxavoider9889
      @taxavoider9889 9 ปีที่แล้ว +149

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

    • @fazlulhowladerbibi5377
      @fazlulhowladerbibi5377 9 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      same here

    • @CrissAlcantara
      @CrissAlcantara 9 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @ryanc9728
    @ryanc9728 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is the same as sending a snap to your crush asking if y’all can go out on a date and getting a snap back.. the answer is there but you won’t know until you open it. And in that moment you u feel what Schrödinger felt.

  • @openskies9089
    @openskies9089 4 ปีที่แล้ว +470

    In another parallel world it would be Schrödinger's Dog

    • @ucokjohnson8708
      @ucokjohnson8708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And it would be pavlov's cat

    • @andromedagalaxian2158
      @andromedagalaxian2158 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @Oldladies_o7
      @Oldladies_o7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Checkovs cat and schrodingers gun

    • @p_u_j_a6091
      @p_u_j_a6091 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂

    • @-FRIANEZAKENKANIFFSKIT
      @-FRIANEZAKENKANIFFSKIT 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @dwightschrute3712
    @dwightschrute3712 6 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    This video made me question my definition of reality...

    • @OrlandoShroom
      @OrlandoShroom 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Dwight Schrute When a tree falls in the forest it does and and doesn’t make a sound.

    • @godseye8785
      @godseye8785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Simmer down there Socrates

    • @benedictspinoza1025
      @benedictspinoza1025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bears
      Beats
      Battlestar galactica

    • @Kitarp06
      @Kitarp06 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      U r deadlive

    • @maxmustermann5492
      @maxmustermann5492 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica

  • @harshmishra329
    @harshmishra329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +513

    Who came after watching dark to understand it better,What a show man!

  • @kondwaniphiri9772
    @kondwaniphiri9772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    that flew over my head ,am watching it again