"Zombie" Fly That is Both Dead and Alive-Real-life Schrödinger's Cat (Fly) Experiment

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  • Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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    In this video I perform Schrodinger's cat experiment, but I actually do the experiment in real life. Except I don't use a cat, I use some fruit flies from my house. I put them in state of superposition by coupling the quantum state of radon with my vacuum chamber that turns on if there are more than 3 clicks per second in background radiation.
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  5 років тому +378

    Hi everyone. I see a lot of comments comparing superposition to just simply not knowing a specific outcome. But it is not only that we don't know the outcome, but it HAS NO outcome until it is measured. This was proven in my previous video with polarizers showing how the photons have no polariziation until they are measured, it's not just that we don't know it.

    • @neelpetersen9893
      @neelpetersen9893 5 років тому +3

      The Action Lab I love your pronounciation on Schrödinger😂❤️

    • @tribalrhino
      @tribalrhino 5 років тому +8

      I love your videos. However, Your previous video did not prove anything about superpositioned photons (the first polarizer lets about 90% of the light through as it's darker than the white softbox screen, the second polarizer lets 100% of the light through that went through the first polarizer cuz it doesn't get darker until you change the direction. If it were superposition, you'd have some shirty electrons that refused to go through, like you 50/50 black/white testy box) but was a great way of explaining superposition, I'll probably use that :) I remember having a big discussion with my physics teacher about Schrodinger. If you listen for the drop of the bottle of poison, then without measuring the cat, you know its state (barring heart attack from something else or suffocation I guess). Or, if the detector made a ping noise... anyhow, my point is indirect measurement means that while *you* may not know what the state is, something does. I think you covered that at the end. Anyhow, in case you were wondering, I was allowed out of detention early cuz everyone loves a smartarse :)

    • @rickyrich1099
      @rickyrich1099 5 років тому +8

      Indeed photons are quantum objects: meaning that the measure of their polarization has no outcome until you measure it, while the Cat (or the flies) are macroscopic objects, therefore your experiment has an outcome even before you measure it.

    • @PaulFred7
      @PaulFred7 5 років тому +2

      I understand your point about superposition, but what you said about polarized light is false. There are plenty of things that emit polarized light without needing to "measure" it based on how you are using the word 'measure'.

    • @devlinmcguire7543
      @devlinmcguire7543 5 років тому

      Why is it that you sound so much like Mat from PBS Spacetime when you said *"Shut up and calculate!"* ?

  • @ar00042
    @ar00042 5 років тому +695

    Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar...
    And doesn’t....

    • @inthelimelight2680
      @inthelimelight2680 4 роки тому +8

      Atharva Raje I’m not in the bar right now, and haven’t seen the cat, so I guess I’ll just have to find out

    • @dashalonmarrs1490
      @dashalonmarrs1490 4 роки тому +1

      Atharva Raje this is my favorite comment of all time...

    • @nersie4699
      @nersie4699 4 роки тому

      @@dashalonmarrs1490 its stolen

    • @eazy1726
      @eazy1726 4 роки тому +2

      Stolen comment lol attention seekers will do anything to get attention

    • @ErenYeager-vt1uc
      @ErenYeager-vt1uc 3 роки тому

      xD

  • @ZigZagsss
    @ZigZagsss 5 років тому +370

    I didnt fart until you smell it

    • @fordtechchris
      @fordtechchris 5 років тому +33

      But he who smelt it, dealt it.... So did you ever Fart?

    • @ZigZagsss
      @ZigZagsss 5 років тому +24

      @@fordtechchris exactly, quantum mechanics

    • @esgow_
      @esgow_ 4 роки тому +4

      But if they hear you fart

    • @flufferfluffierman
      @flufferfluffierman 4 роки тому +11

      Shrödinger’s fart

    • @kalmkalm7924
      @kalmkalm7924 3 роки тому

      @@flufferfluffierman oh ff

  • @theodorboon
    @theodorboon 5 років тому +1941

    Schrödinger’s Cat
    WANTED
    Dead *and* Alive

    • @aragon2235
      @aragon2235 5 років тому +27

      Good and relevant RDR2 reference. Good job.

    • @ethanhair1460
      @ethanhair1460 5 років тому +18

      @@aragon2235 How is that a Star Wars reference?

    • @ethanhair1460
      @ethanhair1460 5 років тому +9

      @Bob Ross That could be an anything reference

    • @youareanidiot855
      @youareanidiot855 5 років тому +7

      Bob Ross
      That’s a nothing reference it’s a joke about the video

    • @ethanhair1460
      @ethanhair1460 5 років тому +5

      @Bob Ross ... I misread that comment. My bad.

  • @aniruddhadas3606
    @aniruddhadas3606 5 років тому +257

    *Schrödinger's cat to Schrödinger:*
    am i a joke to you.

  • @mynameisJEFF-ym8vq
    @mynameisJEFF-ym8vq 5 років тому +1161

    The moment when you drop your phone face down. Its both cracked and not cracked at the same time until you check

    • @PerfectDarkcontrol
      @PerfectDarkcontrol 5 років тому +90

      that is actually a really good example^^

    • @eddysw8549
      @eddysw8549 5 років тому +39

      Never thought of it like that. That’s a good example tho

    • @PeepingUkulele
      @PeepingUkulele 5 років тому +3

      🤣

    • @athosiza4457
      @athosiza4457 5 років тому +53

      it already cracked or didn't, either way you just haven't checked yet.

    • @kylerharris4246
      @kylerharris4246 5 років тому +9

      What if you hear it crack after it falls but before you pick it up

  • @katcubed
    @katcubed 5 років тому +136

    When my family leaves me home, I’m both dead and alive.

    • @SSADO-
      @SSADO- 4 роки тому +12

      When you commented your comment, it was in a state of existing and not existing, until i saw it a year later to confirm it existed.

    • @lenziin_.14
      @lenziin_.14 3 роки тому

      yup MORE ROBLOX PLAYERS MORE MORE
      me: e

    • @Kuirameto
      @Kuirameto 3 роки тому

      WAIT HOW DID I FIND THIS THING HERE

    • @katcubed
      @katcubed 3 роки тому +1

      @@Kuirameto bruh i dont even remember making this comment wtf u doin here

    • @Kuirameto
      @Kuirameto 3 роки тому

      @@katcubed i was just watching science stuff because im interested in them wth

  • @Billy123bobzzz
    @Billy123bobzzz 5 років тому +696

    This video didn't exist until I watched it.

    • @EmdrGreg
      @EmdrGreg 5 років тому +26

      Or-- it neither existed nor did it not exist?

    • @ethanhair1460
      @ethanhair1460 5 років тому +1

      Exist*

    • @bizarrebread1512
      @bizarrebread1512 5 років тому +8

      No it don't really work like that. Even if u didn't see it still exists because others saw this video there for it doesn't exist until someone saw it.

    • @Billy123bobzzz
      @Billy123bobzzz 5 років тому +11

      @@bizarrebread1512 Yes it does, since I' the observer then everyone else is inside the box and are in superposition until I observe.

    • @alejrandom6592
      @alejrandom6592 5 років тому

      @@bizarrebread1512 then cat cant be dead and alive

  • @SAIYANPRINCE777
    @SAIYANPRINCE777 5 років тому +97

    Just like my homework until teacher checks it.

    • @seanleith5312
      @seanleith5312 3 роки тому +2

      I can't believe we are talking about this kind of nonsense. If I want to hear this, I would talk to a psychiatrist.

    • @crazyOscar-gy8ul
      @crazyOscar-gy8ul 3 роки тому

      XD

  • @killallbots1012
    @killallbots1012 5 років тому +88

    5:25 I can see how disappointed he is that the fly did not die. lol

    • @spacemanspiff4985
      @spacemanspiff4985 4 роки тому +4

      KillAllBots 101 “Fate *sigh* was in their favor”

    • @happyface4036
      @happyface4036 3 роки тому

      Or he is not disappointed but we disappointed

  • @ArkinMC
    @ArkinMC 5 років тому +179

    The fascinating about quantum mechanics actually is: it makes sense and confuses at the same time.

    • @bruh____784
      @bruh____784 3 роки тому +5

      Superposition.

    • @quantum1320
      @quantum1320 2 роки тому +1

      yes my superposition* is quite fascinating

    • @awaywithwords9650
      @awaywithwords9650 2 роки тому +2

      Logical ≠ Sensical

    • @MDG-mykys
      @MDG-mykys 2 роки тому +1

      It makes sense but it shouldn't.

    • @LaserKatze
      @LaserKatze 2 роки тому +5

      @@MDG-mykys it’s logical but doesn’t make sense, because you can’t be dead and alive at the same time

  • @healwix
    @healwix 2 роки тому +29

    Man, never end your UA-cam career! You are making me so motivated to learn things that don't actually inspire me. Absolutely loving you and your videos.

  • @AlgoatAll
    @AlgoatAll 5 років тому +242

    This one almost falls into philosophy territory

    • @jamastrollfingaz5496
      @jamastrollfingaz5496 5 років тому +7

      Hyper theoretic philosophy.

    • @connorcriss
      @connorcriss 5 років тому +2

      Adventist superposition is not something to study if you’re dumb

    • @connorcriss
      @connorcriss 5 років тому +2

      Adventist Absurd doesn’t mean not real. Quantum mechanics is the only theory that is as strongly supported by science as the theory of relativity.

    • @connorcriss
      @connorcriss 5 років тому +1

      Adventist On a macro level it _can_ work, but the problem is that there’s so many particles in something like a human that for it to have a superposition, every single particle would need to agree on that superposition, which is incredibly unlikely. The purpose of this experiment was to take smaller particles, like electrons from a radioactive substance, which can easily be in superposition, and have their position affect fruit flies on a macro scale. He did explain in the video at the end why it didn’t really work, and even if it hadn’t had the camera and the Geiger counter there would still be photons hitting the particles and measuring them. If he did it in a very dark room, and made the radioactive substance somehow kill the fruit flies directly, it could have worked.

    • @michakubisz535
      @michakubisz535 4 роки тому

      All chemical reactions are actually measurements and collapses of quantum states. Does chemistry involve philosophy? :)

  • @TheSheiit
    @TheSheiit 5 років тому +14

    You're dead or alive in a super position state until you're friends or family check on you lol.

    • @smokey04200420
      @smokey04200420 3 роки тому +1

      You seem to be confused about this. It’s not dead or alive. It is both dead and alive. That is what superposition means.

  • @Дмитри-ч8ш
    @Дмитри-ч8ш 5 років тому +72

    Put a neutron star next to the fly

  • @elliottwalker8624
    @elliottwalker8624 5 років тому +30

    The only thing that confuses me about the thought experiment- since you are using a living being (the cat, or in this case the fly), doesn't that mean that the state HAS been measured? The cat would be able to tell whether or not it's dead through its consciousness. I may just be looking at this wrong, so if someone wouldn't mind explaining it to me it would be much appreciated.

    • @hundenhugo1
      @hundenhugo1 5 років тому +1

      Schrödinger assumes cats don't have an intelligent consciousness

    • @hundenhugo1
      @hundenhugo1 5 років тому +7

      Nevermind I was proven wrong. Observation has nothing to do with consciousness but rather messurement. Sort of.

    • @edsilver
      @edsilver 5 років тому +7

      This video is wrong. The flies are technically being observed by any light or particles hitting them. It does not have to be a person. The original Shrodingers cat is simply theoretical and relies on there not being anything in the box apart from a "cat" that has nothing happening inside it otherwise it would count as being observed. It is just a way of explaining it and demonstrates the difference between maths and physics and real life. I'm not hating on "The Action Lab", they make some good videos... this one is just s**t.

    • @PaulFred7
      @PaulFred7 5 років тому +6

      Except he is completely mistaken because consciousness is not required at all for a measurement. All the atoms in the air colliding with the flies and photons hitting them are "measuring" them constantly at every moment.

    • @aaroncurtis8545
      @aaroncurtis8545 5 років тому +2

      He did address this issue. Like he said, it depends on your interpretation of qm.

  • @ProPlayer-wq3nu
    @ProPlayer-wq3nu 5 років тому +354

    Your title choices are getting more and more confusing

    • @ivyistiredeepysleepy
      @ivyistiredeepysleepy 5 років тому +1

      Agreed.
      +1

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 років тому

      fly lives matter!!! reported for fly cruelty!!!

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 років тому

      but the real question is: do flies feel pain? or even think consciously at all

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 років тому

      @@Riskteven lol who doesnt know basic math?

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 років тому

      @@Riskteven speculating on things that do not exist is insanity. just look at flat earthers

  • @lordlunacy6020
    @lordlunacy6020 5 років тому +26

    If a tree poops in the woods does a bear still make a sound?

    • @dariusfilip4695
      @dariusfilip4695 3 роки тому +1

      *what?*
      so if a TREE
      POOPS in the woods
      does A BEAR
      still MAKE A SOUND?
      explain to me

    • @alexy.9306
      @alexy.9306 3 роки тому +1

      Wtf don't you mean if a tree falls over in the woods did it make a sound if no one was around to hear it?

    • @nevogolan6505
      @nevogolan6505 3 роки тому +1

      If a tree pooped in the woods, how much would people pay to see genuine tree poop?

  • @wolfiegames2442
    @wolfiegames2442 5 років тому +290

    I just can't understand this UA-cam channel anymore.
    But it's still the best, I dunno
    Edit: stop paying attention to my comment oh my goD

    • @klinky
      @klinky 5 років тому +24

      It's the best and the worst at the same time...

    • @randylock2058
      @randylock2058 5 років тому +13

      I agree, I am totally lost with this concept. I feel like this is when hes going to start advertising Scientology.

    • @bizarrebread1512
      @bizarrebread1512 5 років тому +4

      This is basically about you not knowing if a thing is dead or not and that's the experiment

    • @hiru92
      @hiru92 5 років тому +2

      its quantum machenics ...

    • @DaP84
      @DaP84 5 років тому +6

      Crispy Memez nope, it's much more deep than that! It's about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device.
      Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: ua-cam.com/video/DfPeprQ7oGc/v-deo.html

  • @arsarstarst
    @arsarstarst 5 років тому +91

    It´s for saving RAM duh.. we all live in a simulation.

    • @priyanshugoel3030
      @priyanshugoel3030 5 років тому +8

      That was what i proposed once too but i was segregated with flat earthers

    • @grantadamson3478
      @grantadamson3478 5 років тому +1

      @@priyanshugoel3030 LOL

    • @ninxstation
      @ninxstation 5 років тому +7

      That's some aggressive memory management. Probably we should stick more Ram sticks on the universe simulator god-computer.

    • @fib7615
      @fib7615 5 років тому +1

      If we live in a simulation, does that mean the aliens controlling the simulator is also in a simulation?

    • @sohamsengupta6470
      @sohamsengupta6470 4 роки тому

      Yeah loading all chunks takes too much time and processing power

  • @MrDerp-cs9jh
    @MrDerp-cs9jh 5 років тому +141

    Can I summon him?
    The Action Lab
    The Action Lab
    The Action Lab

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  5 років тому +58

      Hi!

    • @ivyistiredeepysleepy
      @ivyistiredeepysleepy 5 років тому +4

      @@TheActionLab HI SHISHTARSH

    • @nerdrulesu
      @nerdrulesu 5 років тому +7

      holy !$#+ it worked

    • @devlinmcguire7543
      @devlinmcguire7543 5 років тому +10

      @@TheActionLab We will build a weird shrine in you honor... It will be a gigantic vacuum chamber the size of a room.

    • @y33t23
      @y33t23 5 років тому +2

      I wish that it would work, then I would summon him and replace all my teachers.

  • @minacapella8319
    @minacapella8319 2 роки тому +8

    The thing I love most about quantum mechanics is stuff like how light changes how it behaves depending on observation.

  • @jayfunk13
    @jayfunk13 5 років тому +72

    Until you use a real cat this experiment is not valid. I volunteer my girlfriends cat

  • @juicer2688
    @juicer2688 5 років тому +5

    It’s, ironically, insane how you can talk for 15 mins about how something is dead and alive at the same time and not be called crazy

  • @dacoconutnut9503
    @dacoconutnut9503 5 років тому +89

    Why is the butterfly not made with butter?

    • @thealientree3821
      @thealientree3821 5 років тому +11

      Kowalski! Status report!

    • @tgnm9615
      @tgnm9615 5 років тому +7

      Jordan Botelho323 kowalski analysis

    • @itssaad8663
      @itssaad8663 5 років тому +3

      Wired flex , but ok

    • @Emily-me
      @Emily-me 5 років тому +1

      People used to think that insect stole butter. Also one of the common species is a color that resembles that of butter.

    • @jennyeam399
      @jennyeam399 5 років тому

      _report.exe_attempt_fixed.

  • @MammaOVlogs
    @MammaOVlogs 5 років тому +203

    Wow! Amazing ! Now do this with real Zombies or do the zombies not become zombies til you make them zombies? Now l am confused!

    • @Brawlio13
      @Brawlio13 5 років тому +3

      Momma O but... zombies are already dead and alive. Hence the living dead. So in theory... there would be no effect?

    • @NeoMetalKNIGHT
      @NeoMetalKNIGHT 5 років тому +2

      Well not to mention but ... phisically dead inside doesn't mean to be dead in real life, it's not related to math and logic.
      Quantums are related to technologies and A.I.s, so this explain how an artificial intelligence could learn, think and autocorrect itself.
      The superposition in psychology could be like an ultra brain capable to go everywhere and stay on his own position without moving, like a ghost.
      Ps: So I imagine next time we will see an experiment about Ghosties and how to summon demons XD

    • @MammaOVlogs
      @MammaOVlogs 5 років тому +1

      @@Brawlio13 lol so true

    • @MammaOVlogs
      @MammaOVlogs 5 років тому +1

      @@NeoMetalKNIGHT whoa! now l really am confused lol

  • @roshnelson4346
    @roshnelson4346 5 років тому +38

    *has made a video of putting his hand in a vacuum chamber
    “okay today we are going to be getting a little bit crazy”

  • @njcwolf4654
    @njcwolf4654 5 років тому +1

    You know, your titles are always kinda clickbaity, but your videos never fail to entertain me. So it's like, I can't even be mad.

  • @f4dy
    @f4dy 5 років тому +7

    Please do more quantum mechanics videos like this! I'm an EE in my thirties, never did QM in school, so I never really had a clue about it. Your videos are finally making things understandable. Keep up the great work!

  • @shade5554
    @shade5554 5 років тому +34

    Radiation does not occur until you measure it?

    • @MeatBunFul
      @MeatBunFul 5 років тому +13

      It does occur. It's just that the result is ambiguous untill measued.

    • @speed2574
      @speed2574 5 років тому +1

      That means the radiation was in a super position till he measured it..

    • @minsukseo
      @minsukseo 5 років тому

      may or may not radiate until observe it

    • @djhuntsman7504
      @djhuntsman7504 5 років тому

      So as long as I don't measure radiation it's not harmful because it hasn't been measured and proven deadly?

    • @wiretamer5710
      @wiretamer5710 5 років тому +7

      Assume you know the exact number of unstable atoms in the experiment.
      You can know the exact rate of decay in theory. You can know how exactly how long it will take for half of the atoms to decay, but you can never know in what chronological order each atom will decay.
      This may sound intuitive and logical UNTIL you really understand that the half life of any radioactive element is a constant.
      If the decay of individual atoms is random, what is to stop all of them decaying in bunches, or all at once?
      For the half life to be a constant period of time, the individual atoms have to 'wait their turn' to decay, so no jumping the cue. So how does an atom 'know' when to decay?
      Take two (sub-critical) quantities of the same radioactive material and put them together in a container. Providing the collective mass remains sub critical, the rate of atomic decay WILL NOT CHANGE. WTF?
      You have changed the total number of atoms, the rate of decay remains the same, the half life of the material remains the same? WTF?
      Its not like adding more water to a bucket of water with a hole in it.
      Quantum theory is odd...

  • @ThatShyGuyMatt
    @ThatShyGuyMatt 5 років тому +7

    I'm near 40 and the cat thing never made sense to me until now. You explained it in easy terms. Mind blown!

  • @ADRENERGlC
    @ADRENERGlC 5 років тому +17

    *This could be straight from a jigsaw movie!*

  • @raypimienta7670
    @raypimienta7670 5 років тому +8

    is this were "curiosity killed the cat" came from

  • @playsparkanims6540
    @playsparkanims6540 5 років тому +10

    The shrodinger cat is sleeping
    But it's awake

  • @rickyrich1099
    @rickyrich1099 5 років тому +3

    Actually Shrödinger introduced the Cat experiment in order to show how the superposition theory resulted paradoxical when applied to macro objects. Indeed the cat is dead or alive every moment before the measurement and when you open the box you just find out if it died or not, it is not you forcing the Cat to choose one state or the other. The superposition of states works just fine in quantum objects experiments like the double slit, where if you don't measure which slit the particle is passing through, it just goes through both of them.
    Nice video as always, keep it up man.

  • @TheIcy001
    @TheIcy001 5 років тому +1

    A popular theory I like is that the state of your brain is also a quantum state and in fact, nothing is being collapsed at all when you measure; it is your brain's quantum state that is being entangled with the object's state.

  • @TechnoEstate
    @TechnoEstate 5 років тому +3

    So it's basically the good ol' "When a tree falls in the woods, and no one's / nothing's there to detect it, does it make a sound (and does it even actually fall)?"

  • @clex2349
    @clex2349 5 років тому +1

    Superposition isn’t some revolutionary theory, it’s just a bunch of smart people who won’t admit that they simply don’t know the answer.

  • @yobittu7452
    @yobittu7452 5 років тому +25

    Next Video Idea : Can you physically store sound in a box or container or in anything of some sort.

    • @joshuaosei5628
      @joshuaosei5628 5 років тому +5

      Think of sound as vibrations. As long as the air particles are moving, there will be sound. So theoretically possible, but anything vibrating will pass its energy on, and eventually that energy will be transferred to the walls of its container, and then out of it.

    • @punishedsatonaka
      @punishedsatonaka 5 років тому +1

      Kowalski, analysis

    • @xx_amongus_xx6987
      @xx_amongus_xx6987 5 років тому +1

      @@joshuaosei5628 Making believe that the walls of the container will hold in any energy without absorbing it... would the sound vibrations' energy eventually fade away into nothing or?

    • @waveplasma1369
      @waveplasma1369 5 років тому

      If the box lies within a perfect vacuum and is levitating, yes

    • @milesromanus7041
      @milesromanus7041 3 роки тому +1

      @@joshuaosei5628 the speed of sound is variable, counting on the material, and temperature. I think it's possible to tinker the temperature and the material so that you can delay the time it takes for the sound waves to reach the walls of the box, no idea by how much though..

  • @kevinmitsui3002
    @kevinmitsui3002 5 років тому

    Me at the shop - I want a geiger counter.
    The shop guy - may I know why do you want that.
    Me - well, i'll put a little fruitfly in a superposition where it is both alive and dead.
    Shop guy- goddamn you son of a elon musk

  • @hqcart1
    @hqcart1 5 років тому +10

    I have never met you, so, YOU ARE DEAD AND ALIVE. until we meet, i'll measure you!

    • @PRGME7
      @PRGME7 5 місяців тому

      Right back at you! 😇

  • @Noah_7s
    @Noah_7s 5 років тому +5

    I watched this video with a fly in my room

    • @markmartin3152
      @markmartin3152 4 роки тому

      Did you hear this fly or actually see it?

  • @KnightSlasher
    @KnightSlasher 5 років тому +83

    Will it eat meh brain

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  5 років тому +24

      Yes, I let it go. It will find you. And it will eat your brain

    • @timoking7650
      @timoking7650 5 років тому +3

      No cause you dont have any

    • @duckguide4109
      @duckguide4109 5 років тому +1

      No, cause you don’t got one 😂 😂

    • @ChallengeTheNarrative
      @ChallengeTheNarrative 5 років тому

      @@duckguide4109 *haven't

    • @duckguide4109
      @duckguide4109 5 років тому +2

      Pseudo Nym Ik, I purposely said it the way I did...

  • @ftlPhysicsGuy
    @ftlPhysicsGuy 5 років тому +1

    I find one of the most interesting conclusion of this thought experiment is that *I* have no idea if anything else is in a state of "non-superposition" until *I* observer it. If you observe the results of an experiment and come to tell me, then until you tell me, I can think of you as being in a state of superposition yourself (with each version having observed a different result of the experiment). The flies don't have to collapse the wave function, you don't have to collapse the wave function, but once you tell me, then and only then do I know the wave function has collapsed. But each of us can make that same claim, so we could each claim to be the one and only being who collapses all wave functions in the universe. Gotta love QM.

  • @theblackreaper4395
    @theblackreaper4395 5 років тому +7

    My brain is in a superposition of confusion and fascination

  • @electriccheese5373
    @electriccheese5373 5 років тому

    Dude, it is weird, because O remember a few months ago when you only had 200,00 subscribers or so, I just realized how fast this channel has grown

  • @spawnofsatan1796
    @spawnofsatan1796 5 років тому +89

    16 seconds ago? Really? This early? Or is my youtube broken?

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  5 років тому +32

      You are just that awesome!

    • @Rowdy106
      @Rowdy106 5 років тому +6

      Oof

    • @draketungsten74
      @draketungsten74 5 років тому +10

      It wasn't posted until you observed it.

    • @JaDo426
      @JaDo426 5 років тому +6

      @@draketungsten74 yeah the video was in a state of superposition

  • @KurumiZph
    @KurumiZph 5 років тому +5

    Next video: how to turn your tv remote into interdimensional passage

  • @nossonweissman
    @nossonweissman 5 років тому +9

    "Fate was in their favor" xD

  • @sateeshkumar4952
    @sateeshkumar4952 Рік тому

    Schrödinger's cat: Hey I'm alive...now let's test yours...

  • @jxyndz6303
    @jxyndz6303 5 років тому +5

    Who remembers when action lab was hydraulic press action?

  • @victherocker
    @victherocker 5 років тому

    "Shut up and calculate" should be a motto for anyone who tend to overthink problems like me

  • @RalphDratman
    @RalphDratman 5 років тому +5

    The superposition was only resolved when I watched this video, obviously. Until then the flies and the geiger counter and you and the video data bits were all in a superposition of dead vs alive flies. And of course each of us viewers resolved the superposition independently, so some of us saw you announce that the flies were alive while the others saw you say the flies were dead. In my reality your flies were alive. I hope you count the occurrences of viewers reporting dead or alive flies so we can finally get the results of this experiment.

    • @sophiaschier-hanson4163
      @sophiaschier-hanson4163 2 роки тому +1

      This sounds suspiciously like the Wigner's Friend thought experiment. Whoa, dude!

    • @sayanghosh8352
      @sayanghosh8352 2 роки тому

      Dead

    • @RalphDratman
      @RalphDratman 2 роки тому

      @@sophiaschier-hanson4163 I may or may not be Wigner's anonymous friend.
      He (or she) was not named -- for privacy, of course.

  • @saladladds8203
    @saladladds8203 5 років тому +2

    I love how at the beginning it goes through the whole process of "the material decays and knocks over the acid and then kills the cat" like is this rube goldberg or something?

  • @jacopocarboncini5712
    @jacopocarboncini5712 5 років тому +11

    Man, your eyes are so close that they are becoming a singularity

  • @BharathinfinityHegde
    @BharathinfinityHegde 5 років тому

    I like this video more than I normally l like your videos because of that bit of explanation in the end, which was interesting and simpler than most I've heard about this topic and you showed your face instead of your hand while talking/explaining.

  • @jensphiliphohmann1876
    @jensphiliphohmann1876 5 років тому +3

    I think the 'a human must look at it to collapse the state' - interpretation at least hits the border to quantum esoterics.
    There is surprisingly am indirect test of that hypothesis by a phenomenon called the quantum Zeno effect.
    This is based on the fact that the probabilities for the alternative outcomes don't develop linearly, thus being the first of them overproportionally more likely than the second for some time. Observation thus kinda turns back the clock.
    In radioactivity, this doesn't seem to work but rather a kind of anti-Zeno-effect is said to occur which means that the 'decayed' - state must quickly be the more likely one.

  • @praveenb9048
    @praveenb9048 5 років тому

    You were part of the superposition until a minute ago when I began to watch this video.

  • @aaryankhairnar69
    @aaryankhairnar69 5 років тому +14

    when you observe it the universe splits into two where in one the fly is alive and in other it's dead
    that's called parallel universes

    • @joeferdin9871
      @joeferdin9871 3 роки тому

      So the outcome basically decides two different storylines...?

    • @aaryankhairnar69
      @aaryankhairnar69 3 роки тому

      @@joeferdin9871 yeah kinda

    • @joeferdin9871
      @joeferdin9871 3 роки тому

      @@aaryankhairnar69 But that's impossible:/

    • @aaryankhairnar69
      @aaryankhairnar69 3 роки тому

      @@joeferdin9871 yeah it's a hypothesis

  • @ukairainian3682
    @ukairainian3682 2 роки тому

    How humans see the Schrodinger's experiment: Superposition
    How the cat sees the Schrodinger's experiment: *Saw the movie*

  • @aaroncurtis8545
    @aaroncurtis8545 5 років тому +3

    That was well presented; as are all your videos. But I came to say; Wow! Someone that really knows physics actually explained Why consciousness gets brought up in this context. That's much appreciated by me anyways.

  • @Magicwillnz
    @Magicwillnz 5 років тому +1

    Thanks for not immediately dismissing the consciousness hypothesis.

    • @aaroncurtis8545
      @aaroncurtis8545 5 років тому

      Ikr... Getting someone to talk about Why is pretty rare lately.

  • @Meiabell
    @Meiabell 5 років тому +12

    So suspended state until observed. AND Quantum Physics also says that observation alters what is being observed. What does it mean?

    • @PerfectDarkcontrol
      @PerfectDarkcontrol 5 років тому +4

      That is another problem, when working in a scale of nanometers and below. Imagine u want to measure the speed of a particle. How to measure it if even light would influence it? As soon as u measure it u alter the measurement. At example, u want to measure the speed of wind with a rotor. The wind is moving with a definite tempo, but as soon as it hits upon the rotor, it will lose it's speed, so u did't got the actual speed. Although this influence is minimal and can be ignored in the measurement of the wind, in the world of nanometers this influence makes a great impact on the results.
      I hope that was understandable, english is not my native language.

    • @japneelsingh2
      @japneelsingh2 5 років тому

      @@PerfectDarkcontrol so measurements are not the true nature that we seek but the altered nature due to our curiosity and interference.
      What will we call this measurement then?

    • @SC-zq6cu
      @SC-zq6cu 5 років тому

      @@japneelsingh2
      Nearest answer

    • @japneelsingh2
      @japneelsingh2 5 років тому

      @@SC-zq6cu that is appropriate lol but what is the real answer called then

    • @SC-zq6cu
      @SC-zq6cu 5 років тому

      @@japneelsingh2
      Real answer

  • @ChromashmellowCelestial
    @ChromashmellowCelestial 4 роки тому

    I think there are 3 possibilities here actually. You have
    -The flies are dead, as the observer is an human
    -The flies are alive, as the observer is an human
    -Being the flies self-aware, they are the observer so they "choose" what state they are in, yet for you(the human) they are both dead and alive.So it'd depend in the observer, and for an external observer you'd have 4 states here. And when you came to the room, the superposition ended

  • @IStMl
    @IStMl 5 років тому +40

    Am I the only one that didn’t get it ?

    • @fabiuskleemann2184
      @fabiuskleemann2184 5 років тому +4

      It´s like your hair you dont know in wich position it is until you check on it in a mirror. so it can be to the left or to the right, but you wont know what it is until you check it either with your hand or as said, a mirror. (sorry for my english)

    • @mamupelu565
      @mamupelu565 5 років тому +1

      I guess no one gets it

    • @Marko_Djuricic
      @Marko_Djuricic 5 років тому +7

      Someone wrote a really good example: When you drop your phone, it's in a state of superposition (broken and not broken at the same time) from your point of view, until you measure it (pick it up and see the result).

    • @bizarrebread1512
      @bizarrebread1512 5 років тому +1

      I got it

    • @DaP84
      @DaP84 5 років тому +2

      It's about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device.Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: ua-cam.com/video/DfPeprQ7oGc/v-deo.html

  • @johnzorkon3540
    @johnzorkon3540 5 місяців тому

    You realize of course, that this is just a reworked version of the old adage: if a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it does it make a sound

  • @phizicks
    @phizicks 5 років тому +3

    I think everything is measuring it. even empty space with quantum fluctuations affects the measurement

  • @eagle3676
    @eagle3676 5 років тому

    Measurement(observation or interaction) is actually just the light hitting the flies or particles colliding with them. That's why quantum mechanics is thought of as small scale. But in reality it's how well hidden you keep something so that no interaction occurs. And that happens a lot easier and more frequent in micro-scales

  • @wermthewerm
    @wermthewerm 5 років тому +30

    I summon you action lab!
    The Action Lab
    The Action Lab
    The Action Lab

  • @shishido7
    @shishido7 5 років тому +2

    So you could say that you didn't check the results until I watched your video.

  • @FarazAli-sq7hr
    @FarazAli-sq7hr 5 років тому +7

    Make video on Young's double slit experiment

  • @motnosniv
    @motnosniv 5 років тому +1

    What do you call a fly with no wings?
    A walk. Bwaha haha!

  • @Gary_Gamer
    @Gary_Gamer 5 років тому +4

    Teen Titans go explained this to me so I feel prepared

  • @CGF41492
    @CGF41492 3 роки тому

    Imagine being a Fly and you are caught just to be an experiment and watch yourself being dead and alive at youtube at the same time.

  • @TheExtraleague
    @TheExtraleague 5 років тому +20

    "The entire universe that didn't actually exist in real state until conscientious being be able to absorb it" ... yea we call it "rendering texture" or "spawning" in our created IT universe :D

    • @peksn
      @peksn 3 роки тому

      @Hooda the Antagonist wdym it obviously does

    • @peksn
      @peksn 3 роки тому

      @Hooda the Antagonist damn didn't even see that lol

  • @isaiahdavis2248
    @isaiahdavis2248 2 роки тому +1

    Schrodinger's cat in a nutshell:
    YESN'T

  • @mrflippy3578
    @mrflippy3578 5 років тому +6

    You feel like a genius when you actually understand these things.

  • @jetoler7379
    @jetoler7379 5 років тому +1

    2 years later: "Action lab: I created a wormhole and ascended beyond god (Experiment)"

    • @biluroy2426
      @biluroy2426 3 роки тому

      Now I think 2 year complete

  • @fjeezy1305
    @fjeezy1305 3 роки тому +4

    Years ago after thinking about this for a while, the thought occurred to me...
    Maybe much like a computer program, existence also has every possibility written into its “code”, but the user only uses (or experiences) the parts of the program that are executed while they are running it.
    Like when i wake up, im in a superposition of staying in bed or getting up. Since both actions are possible, both are real, or written into the “code” of the universe. Both happened/are happening/will happen. If that makes sense lol.
    Just the thoughts of a random layperson 😂

  • @siiroblank2854
    @siiroblank2854 4 роки тому +1

    The fly was observing itself and other things all the time. Conclusion: It was never in superposition.

  • @Lonewolf-
    @Lonewolf- 5 років тому +5

    Hit like those who didn't understand but watched the full video 😂

  • @hagmoi737
    @hagmoi737 2 роки тому +1

    Imagine just trying to find food and live a normal fruit fly’s life then you got caught into the hand of a crazy scientist and got put into a superposition

  • @loess4616
    @loess4616 5 років тому +3

    coat the inside of a bottle with never wet and fill it up

    • @loess4616
      @loess4616 5 років тому

      like so he can see

  • @MetroAndroid
    @MetroAndroid 3 роки тому

    8:39 Me: "Wait, doesn't that mean the whole unobserved universe is in a superposition until we look at it?"
    Action Lab 2 seconds later:

  • @jacopo.mazzei
    @jacopo.mazzei 5 років тому +4

    You made lots of videos about blackest black but what about whitest White?

  • @betiedu
    @betiedu 5 років тому +2

    Untill I check my phone Action Lab has both uploaded and not uploaded a video

  • @jimstanton4535
    @jimstanton4535 5 років тому +6

    WOW!!! .... Schrodinger became famous for Publicly Tormenting his flea bitten cat.
    Nobody even reported him to the Humane Society for this act of cruelty. How sad!!!

  • @erlangga1953
    @erlangga1953 5 років тому

    2018 : how to make animal zombie
    2040 : how to revive humans with 1 injection

  • @speed2574
    @speed2574 5 років тому +8

    I have a suggestion....
    Take 2 polarizers and place them crosswise on a sheet of glass so that no photons could emit....
    Then shine that 32000 lumen flash light or 5w laser drom the pther side yo see if the polarizers gets glow....
    This is gonna Be cool. Try it pleaseeee!!!!!.....☺😊

  • @hhthoj
    @hhthoj 5 років тому

    You're both passed and failed the exam at the same time until you receive the score.

  • @ahmed38247
    @ahmed38247 5 років тому +7

    It wasnt dead and alive..
    Check this.. lets say u put the fly in a box and measure the amount of oxygen and then u do tge experiment for 1 hour then come back and find out the fly is dead when u measure it and before that it was dead and alive at the same time then the amount of oxygen would have been almost gone completely (bcoz it was dead and alive for 1h breathing) but what u found out is the oxygen is the same amount (bcoz it was ONLY dead when u left it and it wasnt alive to breath in oxygen)
    I have a serious question.. when u say an intelligent being have to measure the expirment (like the example of the universe) could that be god?

    • @toasterforsale5069
      @toasterforsale5069 5 років тому +1

      1000 vids no subscribers A better example is dropping your phone, when it’s midair from your POV it’s in a state of superpositiom, you don’t know if it’s broken until you pick it up

    • @DaP84
      @DaP84 5 років тому +1

      No, this is about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device.Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: ua-cam.com/video/DfPeprQ7oGc/v-deo.html

    • @ahmed38247
      @ahmed38247 5 років тому

      @@DaP84 then its probably always being measured bcoz the fly's state of being dead or alive affects the future and thats why we can tell what happened in the past was REAL and it did happen by the modern state of an object.. unless both circumstances were actually running at the same time and one of them disappears once they're measured.. so according to that, can we say that the universe was created in a REAL state once we discovered that? And before that it was in a superposition state?

    • @HidekiShinichi
      @HidekiShinichi 5 років тому

      1000 vids no subscribers it would be god so different from any idea of god we have here eight now that you probably would not call it god

  • @KotyoK1
    @KotyoK1 5 років тому +1

    You know, my relationship with your last video remind me of Schrödinger's Cat also.
    I saw that video, but might as well say I didn't see that video, because I didn't get shit from it lol

  • @zorro-ki7zr
    @zorro-ki7zr 5 років тому +4

    Its funny how americans pronounce german names :D

  • @saqibmudabbar
    @saqibmudabbar 5 років тому

    It’s kinda like how the world around you doesn’t exist, unless you look at it, like when you’re not looking that way in video games or the simulation we’re living in.

  • @ahmed38247
    @ahmed38247 5 років тому +6

    I have a serious question.. when u say an intelligent being have to measure the expirment (like the example of the universe) could that be god?

  • @FocusedFart
    @FocusedFart 3 роки тому +1

    How to kill a fly
    Google: Slap it
    Bing:

  • @BobMcCoy
    @BobMcCoy 5 років тому +6

    *_weird flex, but ok_*

  • @tabaks
    @tabaks 5 років тому

    "Measurement" is a misnomer. The word is "interaction". And, as much as I can understand, even presence of other particles is "interaction" and therefore collapses the "interaction" clause.

  • @squiddlyd755
    @squiddlyd755 5 років тому +6

    0th!

  • @TajJohnson
    @TajJohnson 5 років тому

    So basically, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" No, unless there's a conscious being that was there to observe it... WHAT???