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

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  • @tomalmog8738
    @tomalmog8738 5 років тому +4150

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

  • @nebulaanishh
    @nebulaanishh 5 років тому +23044

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

    • @farwakhan4423
      @farwakhan4423 5 років тому +3135

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

    • @GAMINGWITHCHINAR
      @GAMINGWITHCHINAR 5 років тому +843

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

    • @jumanahidris2973
      @jumanahidris2973 5 років тому +79

      Nice!

    • @aarambhverma1550
      @aarambhverma1550 5 років тому +364

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

    • @jumanahidris2973
      @jumanahidris2973 5 років тому +71

      @peeps hi whyever not?

  • @nickc.4070
    @nickc.4070 7 років тому +10674

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

  • @varvaramir
    @varvaramir 2 роки тому +9245

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

    • @mikemondano3624
      @mikemondano3624 2 роки тому +411

      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 роки тому +2

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

    • @cowllama1353
      @cowllama1353 Рік тому +16

      Valid

    • @Listereen
      @Listereen Рік тому +4

      bababoeey whats bs

    • @duckduckshoes6393
      @duckduckshoes6393 Рік тому +13

      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.

  • @noahquiles5791
    @noahquiles5791 4 роки тому +5833

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

    • @deus2570
      @deus2570 3 роки тому +134

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

    • @alchemist2048
      @alchemist2048 3 роки тому +118

      Scooby : Dobeedoobeedoo

    • @Anonymous-kw7ls
      @Anonymous-kw7ls 3 роки тому +10

      @@alchemist2048
      😂😂😂

    • @aditya-rt4zb
      @aditya-rt4zb 3 роки тому +28

      answer of every great question is a paradox

    • @mars9842
      @mars9842 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @thatguitardude4307
    @thatguitardude4307 5 років тому +6223

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

    • @basil3630
      @basil3630 5 років тому +34

      *Nice Meme*

    • @flowerondiscord4254
      @flowerondiscord4254 5 років тому +28

      *Maybe, maybe not*

    • @humbertojimmy
      @humbertojimmy 5 років тому +49

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

    • @SRoy-rk3tj
      @SRoy-rk3tj 5 років тому +11

      Should’ve said Well yes AND actually no

    • @thatguitardude4307
      @thatguitardude4307 5 років тому +2

      @@humbertojimmy Good song

  • @dogl0ver03
    @dogl0ver03 8 років тому +27631

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

    • @vik24oct1991
      @vik24oct1991 8 років тому +895

      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 років тому +1601

      The joke
      Your head

    • @zachzent8287
      @zachzent8287 8 років тому +406

      Renee Claude My dog is named Curiosity

    • @saintpluto5613
      @saintpluto5613 8 років тому +318

      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 років тому +136

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

  • @JustSomeDinosaurPerson
    @JustSomeDinosaurPerson 2 роки тому +2754

    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 роки тому +39

      So is the cat ded or alive? Am damb

    • @Skanda1111
      @Skanda1111 2 роки тому +70

      Thanks. Your comment made it very easy to understand.

    • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
      @Rspknlikeab0ssxd 2 роки тому +202

      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 роки тому +167

      @@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 роки тому +61

      @@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.

  • @solutionghostsimple6470
    @solutionghostsimple6470 5 років тому +5406

    Wanted Schrödinger's cat : Dead and Alive

  • @simonc7221
    @simonc7221 4 роки тому +20914

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

    • @mariafe7050
      @mariafe7050 4 роки тому +2027

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

    • @mr.knightthedetective7435
      @mr.knightthedetective7435 4 роки тому +979

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

    • @walterblanchard2092
      @walterblanchard2092 4 роки тому +101

      Schroeder cat poem

    • @carolinedelafuente7251
      @carolinedelafuente7251 4 роки тому +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 роки тому +201

      @@mr.knightthedetective7435 r/woooooosh

  • @caytlin100
    @caytlin100 5 років тому +5546

    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 років тому +456

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

    • @jc.maccount5945
      @jc.maccount5945 5 років тому +79

      You have future kid 😂

    • @alexmercer6585
      @alexmercer6585 5 років тому +104

      Mom response :👊👊👊🖐👊

    • @revelbangtanexo2642
      @revelbangtanexo2642 5 років тому +15

      😂😂 lmaoooo

    • @thanhcongnguyen181
      @thanhcongnguyen181 5 років тому +52

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

  • @grandpastories1483
    @grandpastories1483 2 роки тому +482

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

  • @Shereigna
    @Shereigna 4 роки тому +4178

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

  • @SebNeverMiss
    @SebNeverMiss 3 роки тому +12476

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

  • @arandomjoe9749
    @arandomjoe9749 3 роки тому +8866

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

    • @watertommyz
      @watertommyz 3 роки тому +671

      Yesnt

    • @Di00rt
      @Di00rt 3 роки тому +282

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

    • @adoritowithlegs6468
      @adoritowithlegs6468 3 роки тому +282

      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 роки тому +24

      @@watertommyz I hate you 😂

    • @whotfdidthis
      @whotfdidthis 3 роки тому +6

      damn fr!

  • @katia7440
    @katia7440 2 роки тому +1254

    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 Рік тому +72

      The reason why you should be afraid of physics and chemistry

    • @safaeit
      @safaeit Рік тому +104

      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 Рік тому +42

      ​@@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 Рік тому +9

      I really dont understand intellectual but ok

    • @GRT999
      @GRT999 Рік тому +53

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

  • @johnyboy228
    @johnyboy228 3 роки тому +8489

    Everybody at schrodinger’s funeral: *hmmm*

    • @frazzydoof770
      @frazzydoof770 3 роки тому +623

      both dead and alive until the casket is opened

    • @ureehueurv
      @ureehueurv 3 роки тому +166

      *DUN DUN DUUUUN*

    • @greenlite37
      @greenlite37 3 роки тому +393

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

    • @hydro3672
      @hydro3672 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +28

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

  • @jessicajayes8326
    @jessicajayes8326 5 років тому +1176

    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 років тому +5

      hmm

    • @leitecunha
      @leitecunha 5 років тому +22

      A fine joke! 😄

    • @dylan8443
      @dylan8443 5 років тому +11

      Big Brain time

    • @rasputingonzales6030
      @rasputingonzales6030 4 роки тому +2

      Okay, that was pretty good.

    • @rasputingonzales6030
      @rasputingonzales6030 4 роки тому +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.

  • @wan8234
    @wan8234 4 роки тому +1645

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

    • @lgitsx9665
      @lgitsx9665 4 роки тому +25

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

    • @bobthetomato7005
      @bobthetomato7005 4 роки тому

      BUT I SURVIVED

    • @CEO_of_Kostco
      @CEO_of_Kostco 4 роки тому

      Didn’t think I would see you here, Major

    • @anthonyl6060
      @anthonyl6060 4 роки тому

      James G Atleast I know where the meme came from

    • @manali6402
      @manali6402 4 роки тому

      I died and I survived

  • @aditisharma66
    @aditisharma66 Рік тому +203

    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 :)

  • @Stitchpuppy01
    @Stitchpuppy01 5 років тому +7925

    I understood the word "cat."

  • @lemonade.valley
    @lemonade.valley 5 років тому +514

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

  • @bball33g
    @bball33g 10 років тому +4262

    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 років тому +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 10 років тому +239

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

    • @jadeharley844
      @jadeharley844 10 років тому +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 10 років тому +62

      Jade Harley Classic case of experiment measurement error

    • @spectrum6474
      @spectrum6474 9 років тому +103

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

  •  Рік тому +84

    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 5 місяців тому

      what was the definition

    •  5 місяців тому +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 5 місяців тому

      This is so beautiful philosophically as well.

  • @walterwhite3372
    @walterwhite3372 3 роки тому +6952

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

  • @suryahr307
    @suryahr307 4 роки тому +792

    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 4 роки тому +23

      TIME TO DO THIS

    • @suryahr307
      @suryahr307 4 роки тому +25

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

    • @vineet3269
      @vineet3269 4 роки тому +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 4 роки тому +8

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

    • @shauryagauniyal9125
      @shauryagauniyal9125 4 роки тому +5

      Boom!! You passed the interview 🙌

  • @abidbourdi6877
    @abidbourdi6877 4 роки тому +9664

    I will act like I understood everything

    • @whodeyharambe5776
      @whodeyharambe5776 3 роки тому +241

      If anyone says they fully understand ...
      You lie

    • @whodeyharambe5776
      @whodeyharambe5776 3 роки тому +6

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

    • @rodmaiquez726
      @rodmaiquez726 3 роки тому +12

      You need to act, to understand something

    • @bocar4127
      @bocar4127 3 роки тому +24

      It’s yes and no at the same time

    • @ShahidAhmed07
      @ShahidAhmed07 3 роки тому +5

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

  • @dragon_mind1254
    @dragon_mind1254 2 роки тому +221

    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 2 роки тому +6

      Isn't it a phenomenon

    • @elonmuskito7249
      @elonmuskito7249 2 роки тому +3

      ohh yea the good old double slit Exp

    • @mohamedalhusni6255
      @mohamedalhusni6255 Рік тому +8

      is it because the observer affects the outcome itself ?

    • @mae-oz3eb
      @mae-oz3eb Рік тому +1

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

    • @thehalfbloodprince-nm8uk
      @thehalfbloodprince-nm8uk Рік тому +5

      ​@@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

  • @jimmyjordan5048
    @jimmyjordan5048 4 роки тому +4732

    Guess what the comment was by reading replies.

    • @rtendotapiwa306
      @rtendotapiwa306 4 роки тому +71

      Yes! And No! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @taleahnelson7855
      @taleahnelson7855 4 роки тому +52

      dont call me out like that... 😅😂

    • @isellseagullsfor1dollar729
      @isellseagullsfor1dollar729 4 роки тому +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 роки тому +30

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

    • @jimmyjordan5048
      @jimmyjordan5048 4 роки тому +1

      @Maselek yeah.

  • @hassanaly4838
    @hassanaly4838 4 роки тому +565

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

    • @raenashaikh3377
      @raenashaikh3377 3 роки тому +9

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

  • @AnthonyL0401
    @AnthonyL0401 3 роки тому +10524

    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 роки тому +363

      ah, classic schrodinger, always being so mischievous

    • @areenhashemi
      @areenhashemi 3 роки тому +83

      Underrated comment

    • @lowercaseguy3578
      @lowercaseguy3578 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +11

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

    • @annikachristensen4323
      @annikachristensen4323 3 роки тому +4

      LOL I'm dead 😂

  • @asparkdeity8717
    @asparkdeity8717 2 роки тому +66

    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!

  • @thewalkingbread706
    @thewalkingbread706 4 роки тому +1288

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

    • @samar5838
      @samar5838 4 роки тому +6

      Stolen comment

    • @banjomcgee6333
      @banjomcgee6333 4 роки тому +16

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

    • @suhasop4919
      @suhasop4919 4 роки тому +7

      Yesn't

    • @bored2096
      @bored2096 4 роки тому +2

      @@banjomcgee6333 dayum

    • @jahsac4571
      @jahsac4571 4 роки тому

      Perhaps

  • @teddyvia7134
    @teddyvia7134 4 роки тому +1693

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

    • @luna-hu5uw
      @luna-hu5uw 4 роки тому +106

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

    • @supremekiller2477
      @supremekiller2477 4 роки тому +11

      they were and they werent

    • @toby2668
      @toby2668 4 роки тому +56

      Hi VSauce, Michael here

    • @jacobnewman2494
      @jacobnewman2494 4 роки тому +5

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

    • @qualily8286
      @qualily8286 4 роки тому +3

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

  • @keertiathalye5793
    @keertiathalye5793 4 роки тому +5023

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

  • @colby722
    @colby722 3 роки тому +14

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

  • @BIGFACTSENT
    @BIGFACTSENT 7 років тому +2795

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

    • @antiquarian1773
      @antiquarian1773 6 років тому +237

      or the universe exist because you were born O-O

    • @bonjovy2720
      @bonjovy2720 6 років тому +139

      The best short explanation of quantom mechanics, thanks

    • @ditinct8894
      @ditinct8894 6 років тому +103

      The moon doesn't exist until you look at it

    • @antiquarian1773
      @antiquarian1773 6 років тому +72

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

    • @ditinct8894
      @ditinct8894 6 років тому +123

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

  • @ayomibhumi9356
    @ayomibhumi9356 9 років тому +2236

    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 років тому +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 років тому +2

      Lmao

    • @maacpiash
      @maacpiash 9 років тому +4

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

    • @maximtiburziano872
      @maximtiburziano872 9 років тому

      lol

    • @svendjensen9365
      @svendjensen9365 9 років тому +10

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

  • @gabrielbondoc863
    @gabrielbondoc863 8 років тому +2592

    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 років тому +91

      Gabriel Bondoc in an odd way that makes sense.

    • @krisg4771
      @krisg4771 8 років тому +128

      Schrodingers subject

    • @PR0Z0MBIE9877
      @PR0Z0MBIE9877 7 років тому +30

      You understand it bro

    • @mk_rexx
      @mk_rexx 7 років тому +23

      Every time Schrödinger's cat is explained

    • @andyfung7878
      @andyfung7878 7 років тому +3

      love your comment

  • @gbzorro
    @gbzorro 2 роки тому +7

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

  • @theminingstar4672
    @theminingstar4672 5 років тому +936

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

  • @khangbui3914
    @khangbui3914 5 років тому +1657

    Well, I’m alive but dead inside

  • @sombrerodog9699
    @sombrerodog9699 6 років тому +3212

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

    • @cheetahpiper6422
      @cheetahpiper6422 6 років тому +2

      I love this!!!

    • @nightgal5497
      @nightgal5497 6 років тому +45

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

    • @serenitybowers6422
      @serenitybowers6422 5 років тому +10

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

    • @earfors
      @earfors 5 років тому +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 років тому +1

      Sombrero dog your likes have reached 911

  • @mattfrenden1000
    @mattfrenden1000 4 місяці тому +3

    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.

  • @illunis8273
    @illunis8273 5 років тому +2968

    is the cat dead or alive?
    Shrödinger: yes.

  • @sam_k
    @sam_k 5 років тому +6706

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

    • @magentas6467
      @magentas6467 5 років тому +1582

      you're not but you are

    • @Tiandesta
      @Tiandesta 5 років тому +15

      Yup

    • @ethanblevins1116
      @ethanblevins1116 5 років тому +454

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

    • @05xpeter
      @05xpeter 5 років тому +396

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

    • @jellyfishcluster
      @jellyfishcluster 5 років тому +156

      You’re not supposed to understand quantum physics

  • @Churre1
    @Churre1 5 років тому +352

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

    • @KelvenOne
      @KelvenOne 4 роки тому +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?

  • @Tanmay5616
    @Tanmay5616 Рік тому +9

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

    • @Leroy0070
      @Leroy0070 7 місяців тому

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

  • @ketuu4057
    @ketuu4057 5 років тому +485

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

    • @ladymarcy7830
      @ladymarcy7830 4 роки тому +21

      I understood one word: cat
      All others:🗿

    • @Monochromicornicopia
      @Monochromicornicopia 4 роки тому +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.

  • @jacksonstein809
    @jacksonstein809 5 років тому +475

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

    • @ainzoshle457
      @ainzoshle457 5 років тому +19

      I thought it was Christopher Colombus.

  • @kayd4128
    @kayd4128 3 роки тому +703

    no one:
    Schrödinger: *hehe unboxing time*

    • @ongz..5908
      @ongz..5908 2 роки тому +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤧

    • @breguera77
      @breguera77 2 роки тому

      M-m-m-money shot

  • @ingaaloisia490
    @ingaaloisia490 2 роки тому +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 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @05xpeter
    @05xpeter 5 років тому +804

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

    • @Derekivery
      @Derekivery 5 років тому +5

      Very VERY true!!!!!

    • @shaunaksawargaonkar7814
      @shaunaksawargaonkar7814 5 років тому +23

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

    • @00ryanm00
      @00ryanm00 5 років тому +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 років тому

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

    • @00ryanm00
      @00ryanm00 5 років тому +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.

  • @anuragarya6416
    @anuragarya6416 8 років тому +329

    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 років тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂 true

    • @ally462
      @ally462 5 років тому

      Welcome to physics

    • @serenitybowers6422
      @serenitybowers6422 5 років тому

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

  • @daniellandoe8069
    @daniellandoe8069 5 років тому +458

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

    • @nsbhater
      @nsbhater 5 років тому +5

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

    • @humanbeing1429
      @humanbeing1429 5 років тому +6

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

    • @angelicasysnila5476
      @angelicasysnila5476 5 років тому +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 років тому +1

      You’re being transphobic

    • @drosophilamelanogaster3121
      @drosophilamelanogaster3121 5 років тому +1

      Actually yes but no

  • @saanvisharma2126
    @saanvisharma2126 2 місяці тому +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!

  • @cringecomputerscientist
    @cringecomputerscientist 4 роки тому +271

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

  • @wj8003
    @wj8003 5 років тому +308

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

    • @Phoenixblue.
      @Phoenixblue. 5 років тому +2

      And if u don't then don't

    • @althealligator1467
      @althealligator1467 5 років тому +9

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

    • @kathy582
      @kathy582 5 років тому +5

      Wjimenez923 *all Big Bang theory fans wave*

    • @marcoanonymous8434
      @marcoanonymous8434 5 років тому

      I like his thinking!

  • @anvit6363
    @anvit6363 5 років тому +297

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

  • @colinwhite5355
    @colinwhite5355 Рік тому +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.

  • @enigma6703
    @enigma6703 9 років тому +2582

    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 років тому +25

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

    • @matthewclifford7217
      @matthewclifford7217 9 років тому +45

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

    • @eyeheisenberg2278
      @eyeheisenberg2278 9 років тому +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 9 років тому +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 9 років тому +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.

  • @lukebarth5424
    @lukebarth5424 3 роки тому +841

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

    • @kevinc.cucumber3697
      @kevinc.cucumber3697 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +5

      😄😄 LOL

    • @pjjustice5014
      @pjjustice5014 3 роки тому +28

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

    • @sigsauer_firearms
      @sigsauer_firearms 3 роки тому +11

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

    • @pjb8295
      @pjb8295 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @user-nd3dh4ok3n
    @user-nd3dh4ok3n 4 роки тому +245

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

    • @jofx4051
      @jofx4051 4 роки тому +17

      I'm watching and not watching at the same time

    • @deedevon7468
      @deedevon7468 4 роки тому +5

      Wholesome comment 😁

    • @elmo9097
      @elmo9097 4 роки тому +2

      exactly but also not

    • @dheerajmishra1741
      @dheerajmishra1741 4 роки тому +1

      They have to see to be sure

  • @calebbrowning4328
    @calebbrowning4328 3 місяці тому +1

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

  • @Theninjaprasad
    @Theninjaprasad 3 роки тому +4908

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

    • @alfmea
      @alfmea 3 роки тому +89

      Makes sense.

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 3 роки тому +229

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

    • @allthebrighttplaces
      @allthebrighttplaces 3 роки тому +18

      Manfried the Man joined the chat

    • @schensho6567
      @schensho6567 3 роки тому +58

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

    • @aswinlal5341
      @aswinlal5341 3 роки тому +11

      Rick and Morty stuff 🤣

  • @sudhanshuyadav19
    @sudhanshuyadav19 3 роки тому +783

    Schrodinger's cat
    Wanted
    Dead or alive

    • @carlosmspk
      @carlosmspk 3 роки тому +44

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

    • @hereicomeiamcinnamon951
      @hereicomeiamcinnamon951 3 роки тому +12

      @@carlosmspk very sog champ moment :(

    • @areenhashemi
      @areenhashemi 3 роки тому +3

      Underrated comment

    • @krokiety5712
      @krokiety5712 3 роки тому +14

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

    • @hertzair1186
      @hertzair1186 3 роки тому +3

      ...saw that on a Tshirt

  • @morganzachlfich4309
    @morganzachlfich4309 3 роки тому +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"

  • @sundareshvenugopal6575
    @sundareshvenugopal6575 3 місяці тому +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.

  • @ironvanguard7219
    @ironvanguard7219 7 років тому +595

    I could understand it until he said “superposition”

    • @firefoxyt6600
      @firefoxyt6600 5 років тому +41

      I could understand it until he said "Australian"

    • @jaycheda3232
      @jaycheda3232 5 років тому +8

      @@firefoxyt6600 i couldnt understand

    • @firefoxyt6600
      @firefoxyt6600 5 років тому +2

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

    • @jaycheda3232
      @jaycheda3232 5 років тому +9

      @@firefoxyt6600 everything

    • @Monochromicornicopia
      @Monochromicornicopia 5 років тому +14

      the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was devised as a counter-example to illustrate the absurdity of applying quantum mechanics to macroscopic systems.

  • @JasonJacksonJames
    @JasonJacksonJames 8 років тому +1087

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

  • @Kebabrulle4869
    @Kebabrulle4869 8 років тому +224

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

  • @jamesstuart3346
    @jamesstuart3346 Рік тому +2

    Oh great now I'll have billions of math videos recommended

  • @mycabbages6264
    @mycabbages6264 4 роки тому +136

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

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 роки тому +1

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie ua-cam.com/video/I40WiQLhlgk/v-deo.html

  • @heyitsshakil
    @heyitsshakil 3 роки тому +2070

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

  • @lost1027
    @lost1027 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +17

      lmao same

    • @solonada9602
      @solonada9602 3 роки тому +78

      We are mere average people.

    • @presauced
      @presauced 3 роки тому +10

      @@solonada9602 Yep, sadly.

    • @solonada9602
      @solonada9602 3 роки тому +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 UA-cam subscribers.

    • @presauced
      @presauced 3 роки тому +51

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

  • @janhvinarayan1633
    @janhvinarayan1633 Рік тому +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

  • @dalesmith4609
    @dalesmith4609 5 років тому +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 років тому +10

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

    • @neonz2712
      @neonz2712 5 років тому +13

      We must never open the coffin!

    • @jakesamuel5197
      @jakesamuel5197 5 років тому +11

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

    • @jakesamuel5197
      @jakesamuel5197 5 років тому +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 років тому

      Maybe he already passed through another dimension.

  • @varunshenai3811
    @varunshenai3811 4 роки тому +260

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

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 роки тому

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie ua-cam.com/video/I40WiQLhlgk/v-deo.html

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 3 роки тому

      @RITVIK which one?

  • @Selwynn
    @Selwynn 4 роки тому +988

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

  • @ChanwooPark-me1wc
    @ChanwooPark-me1wc 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому

      This is either chinese or english.. or both

    • @anneclaudia1491
      @anneclaudia1491 Рік тому +3

      @@dougdoan9190 both wrong cuz its actually korean

    • @dougdoan9190
      @dougdoan9190 Рік тому

      @@anneclaudia1491 you just broke physics

    • @oofer754
      @oofer754 7 місяців тому

      @@dougdoan9190 This is rasist and not.

  • @whyureadingmyname9570
    @whyureadingmyname9570 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +13

      Lmao same

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 3 роки тому +2

      Wvaelength IS the universe...

    • @jamespfitz
      @jamespfitz 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

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

    • @ivamanral989
      @ivamanral989 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @cking4869
    @cking4869 5 років тому +614

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

  • @DoodleDan
    @DoodleDan 5 років тому +2743

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

    • @royaamuzumaki3891
      @royaamuzumaki3891 5 років тому +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 років тому +293

      The universe has a secret and it wants to keep it

    • @igglyy3776
      @igglyy3776 5 років тому +135

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

    • @MrMasterKaio
      @MrMasterKaio 5 років тому +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 років тому +12

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

  • @Glacierrune
    @Glacierrune Рік тому +3

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

  • @mancheee646
    @mancheee646 4 роки тому +148

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

    • @IIOOOAndikaYudhistira
      @IIOOOAndikaYudhistira 4 роки тому

      Me : Try to find out

    • @nidhithakkar635
      @nidhithakkar635 4 роки тому

      😆😆

    • @nidhithakkar635
      @nidhithakkar635 4 роки тому

      @@IIOOOAndikaYudhistira 😆👍

    • @Lordecai
      @Lordecai 4 роки тому

      Proving schrodinger's theory is a lie ua-cam.com/video/I40WiQLhlgk/v-deo.html

    • @cynthiakinsley8505
      @cynthiakinsley8505 4 роки тому

      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....

  • @zacharynunn6532
    @zacharynunn6532 5 років тому +1083

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

    • @thanasgoga7127
      @thanasgoga7127 5 років тому +77

      Murderer: Am I a joke to you

    • @pmtclock
      @pmtclock 5 років тому +16

      Me: dies of laughter

    • @shxtney
      @shxtney 5 років тому +12

      plot twist

    • @thisguyispeculiar
      @thisguyispeculiar 5 років тому +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 років тому +24

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

  • @srikarkomanduri2933
    @srikarkomanduri2933 6 років тому +312

    Just use a transparent box damn it

    • @HealthHubss
      @HealthHubss 5 років тому +33

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

    • @bretsheeley4034
      @bretsheeley4034 5 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому

      Srikar Komanduri There's no point then

  • @vinfinity8940
    @vinfinity8940 9 місяців тому +2

    I am glad I understood this video better than ever after 3years and a physics degree.

  • @spjr99
    @spjr99 3 роки тому +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

  • @openskies9089
    @openskies9089 4 роки тому +470

    In another parallel world it would be Schrödinger's Dog

    • @ucokjohnson8708
      @ucokjohnson8708 3 роки тому +8

      And it would be pavlov's cat

    • @andromedagalaxian2158
      @andromedagalaxian2158 3 роки тому +16

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

    • @Oldladies_o7
      @Oldladies_o7 3 роки тому +2

      Checkovs cat and schrodingers gun

    • @p_u_j_a6091
      @p_u_j_a6091 3 роки тому

      😂😂

    • @-FRIANEZAKENKANIFFSKIT
      @-FRIANEZAKENKANIFFSKIT 3 роки тому

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

  • @munesh.105
    @munesh.105 4 роки тому +85

    Shrödinger: are you alive?
    Shrödinger's cat: well yes, but actually no

  • @roastie2210
    @roastie2210 8 місяців тому +1

    3:16 An atom in two different ordits seems wierd, but two ordits can be in one place and the atom can ordit both of them. Means the two nucleus are spinning and atom is standing in one place. That explains this right.

  • @mirelholban8013
    @mirelholban8013 8 років тому +1422

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

    • @killyourself7947
      @killyourself7947 8 років тому +172

      Science is high and dumb.
      Amen.

    • @yashsrivastava5227
      @yashsrivastava5227 8 років тому +160

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

    • @harmonicpsyche8313
      @harmonicpsyche8313 7 років тому +22

      Iah Coron *Not high enough. FTFY

    • @yungdani9018
      @yungdani9018 7 років тому +9

      both tbh

    • @texasray5237
      @texasray5237 6 років тому

      Too smart.

  • @jawaharlal1474
    @jawaharlal1474 4 роки тому +173

    Therefore I didn't approach to my crush so that at least 50% chances of her crush on me remains intact....

    • @KurtisC93
      @KurtisC93 3 роки тому +26

      She likes you back.
      She's also not interested.
      If you ask her out, however, you'll collapse the crave function and it'll be either one or the other. But until then, her feelings exist in both states at the same time.
      You might say that she is...
      (ಠ_ಠ)>⌐■-■
      (⌐■-■)
      _Schrödinger's girlfriend._

    • @GlitchedBlox
      @GlitchedBlox 3 роки тому

      @@KurtisC93 a bit cringe innit bruv

    • @yuhkarry
      @yuhkarry 3 роки тому +7

      @@GlitchedBlox Compared to your accent? Nah bruv

    • @realize8405
      @realize8405 3 роки тому +1

      @@yuhkarry don't mock his accent his bri'ish

    • @aasrithkammula5004
      @aasrithkammula5004 3 роки тому

      @@yuhkarry don’t mock accents mate

  • @farahh1502
    @farahh1502 4 роки тому +148

    no one :
    Schrödinger's cat : I am alive but I am dead

  • @BenS128
    @BenS128 Рік тому +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.

  • @peepiepo
    @peepiepo 8 років тому +888

    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 років тому +9

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

    • @DanielAjoyB
      @DanielAjoyB 8 років тому +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 років тому +78

      the cat was very small.

    • @kendawnkarish1434
      @kendawnkarish1434 6 років тому +4

      I knew the cat was alive. It was purrrrrring.

    • @yeopyeop4098
      @yeopyeop4098 6 років тому

      Heisemberg is incorrect, correct answer....

  • @dipteshkumarsahoo5503
    @dipteshkumarsahoo5503 4 роки тому +102

    The dislikes are from the guys who love cats and can't see the 50% probability of them dying ;)

    • @aditya-rt4zb
      @aditya-rt4zb 3 роки тому +3

      you forgot the category of people who might be studying it in academics

    • @abhishekdivecha3435
      @abhishekdivecha3435 3 роки тому

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @yoya4766
    @yoya4766 3 роки тому +13

    This is what you get when someone reads what they don't understand. It's just words spoken without the right emphasis or pauses. So a hard subject is made even harder. Well done.

    • @DANIEL-xp5jh
      @DANIEL-xp5jh 3 роки тому +2

      Alright, what did he missed or get wrong?

  • @ankittiwari15506
    @ankittiwari15506 Рік тому +2

    Schrodinger's cat : No dogs are harmed in this experiment.