Passed by IT Manager's desk one day and saw this! It's not a dog house.
Nothing drives the nail into my nerd personality more than recognizing this is the Schrodinger's Cat box.
Sor what??? Cat food brand? No ....
I actually knew about this thing because my favorite author James Rollins based one of his novels - The Eye of God on this concept. Not so nerd after all - just fiction buff.
In gist, a fellow named Schrodinger hypothesized that matters, if broken down to the atomic level exists in its all possible states. So in the scheme of the universe and if you are God, I can be fat or not fat. To further explain his hypothesis, he likened the theory to putting a cat in a box and slowly releasing some poison. No cat died in proving this theory. In fact this has not been proven yet. So until you open this box, the cat exist in both alive and dead state.
One of the state will be true when you open the door. The truth as you observed is called superposition and only possible with your participation in its reality. Chim boh? To put it in simple terms - you accidentally dropped your iphone and it landed face down on the concrete - splat! Before you pick up your phone, the screen is both cracked or not cracked. Once you pick it up and look at it, one of the possibility will come true in your reality. Though if it was cracked you'd wished you dreamt the whole thing.
As science goes, other scientist will try to disprove, prove or spin off on the theory. Some other bloke takes this theory to a another level and formulate his many world interpretation in which he theorizes, that one reality will not give way to another but in fact branches out in parallel state of reality. To put it in layman terms, in other universe, you guys will be asking me to eat more as I am stick thin.
It boggles the mind to think of parallel universe and cat in boxes but I am sure people in Einstein era felt the same when Einstein said E=MC2. But hey our generation proves E is really = MC2. Maybe our future generation will prove the parallel universes and Scott Baluka will have the last laugh.
Nothing drives the nail into my nerd personality more than recognizing this is the Schrodinger's Cat box.
Sor what??? Cat food brand? No ....
I actually knew about this thing because my favorite author James Rollins based one of his novels - The Eye of God on this concept. Not so nerd after all - just fiction buff.
In gist, a fellow named Schrodinger hypothesized that matters, if broken down to the atomic level exists in its all possible states. So in the scheme of the universe and if you are God, I can be fat or not fat. To further explain his hypothesis, he likened the theory to putting a cat in a box and slowly releasing some poison. No cat died in proving this theory. In fact this has not been proven yet. So until you open this box, the cat exist in both alive and dead state.
One of the state will be true when you open the door. The truth as you observed is called superposition and only possible with your participation in its reality. Chim boh? To put it in simple terms - you accidentally dropped your iphone and it landed face down on the concrete - splat! Before you pick up your phone, the screen is both cracked or not cracked. Once you pick it up and look at it, one of the possibility will come true in your reality. Though if it was cracked you'd wished you dreamt the whole thing.
I'm alive....
As science goes, other scientist will try to disprove, prove or spin off on the theory. Some other bloke takes this theory to a another level and formulate his many world interpretation in which he theorizes, that one reality will not give way to another but in fact branches out in parallel state of reality. To put it in layman terms, in other universe, you guys will be asking me to eat more as I am stick thin.
It boggles the mind to think of parallel universe and cat in boxes but I am sure people in Einstein era felt the same when Einstein said E=MC2. But hey our generation proves E is really = MC2. Maybe our future generation will prove the parallel universes and Scott Baluka will have the last laugh.
Rats...
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