DefinitelyNotAPhone
@DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net
- Comment on same as it ever was 6 days ago:
Commit to the bit. The bit is eternal.
- Comment on Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US 2 months ago:
I love this libertarian obsession with “true free markets” as if there has ever been or ever will be a market with no nation-states or major conglomerates putting their fingers on the scale for their own self interests. What a world it must be to live in where one is so high on idealism that they somehow miss how incredibly fucking worthless even considering such a thing is when a child could point out that would never occur.
- Comment on We need a larger one. Yes, for the last time. Pleeeeeeeeeease! 5 months ago:
A gaggle of particle physicists standing in a circle chanting “RING! WORLD! RING! WORLD!”
- Comment on NATO sounds alarm over 'hostile' Russian activity across Europe 6 months ago:
Speaking exclusively to Euronews in September, Estonia’s foreign minister Margus Tsahkna warned of Moscow sending migrants across their 300km long border as a form of hybrid attack.
MFW I’m in a comical racism competition and my opponent is a Baltic government official squidward-nervous
- Comment on double slit 8 months ago:
Consciousness is not part of the observer effect (which is itself named in the most infuriating way possible, specifically because it makes people think that the universe is somehow aware of when something sentient is looking at it). “Observing” a particle requires interacting with it in such a way that you meaningfully affect its current state of being, whether that be deflecting it in a different direction than it was going or changing its velocity, and therefore it is impossible at a quantum level to be a passive observer that does not influence the outcome.
In the case of the double slit experiment, if unobserved light will act as a wave with interference and if observed then it acts like a particle. The reason for this is both complicated and simple: light behaves as a wave due to probability. There’s no way of observing a photon without influencing it, so therefore the best we can do is say it has a certain probability of being in this collection of spaces, which in the case of photons is a wave (because it can travel in any of a number of directions outwards from the photon emitter in the experiment, but all going away from the emitter and towards the wall the slits are cut into). For the purposes of this probability wave, the start position is the emitter and the end position is the wall behind the slits, so averaging out a large number of photons will recreate the interference pattern on the wall.
However, if you observe the photons at the slits to try and figure out which slits they’re going through you have influenced the photons and thus collapsed that probability wave into a particle, and in the process created a new probability wave from that moment onwards which has the same end position as the original wave, but now starts at the individual slit. From its perspective, there is no second slit, so now the wave acts as if it is in the single slit setup because from its perspective it is, hence the loss of interference.
Nothing here has anything to do with consciousness. You can recreate this experiment with no one in the room and it will behave exactly the same, and has a sound (if very confusing conventionally) mathematical cause.
On a side note, string theory is effectively unfalsifiable and therefore completely useless as a scientific theory.
- Comment on aLiEnS!!1 11 months ago:
Famously impossible thing to detect in historical records: massive amounts of uranium-235.
- Comment on Merge then review 1 year ago:
Nothing improves morale like the on-call having to unfuck production for the third time that hour because mUh VeLoCiTy decided code review and testing in CI was too slow.
Techbros are fucking cultists.
