• chortle_tortle@mander.xyz
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        3 days ago

        The memory required to track all these particles was insane, so we just made a wave of where they were most likely to be and picked a random spot when the exact location was needed. 🤷

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        there’s lots of physics that cannot be described in algorithmic terms, and (as best I misunderstand it) quantum is the most that

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                i’m just kinda skeptical of suggesting we live in a computer simulation

                tens of thousands of years ago, people looked up into the night sky or a raging tempest and projected human-like traits onto it.

                Now instead of seeing an angry father figure in the stars, we’re surrounded by computers so we look up (or down, in quantum cases), and see a desktop environment. It’s… awful convenient.

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                  I wasn’t suggesting that, I just meant that a theory can be algorithmic while working with probability distributions rather than deterministic values.

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          Thank you!

          And yes you are correct, as it exists as a probability wave, it is not spinning. It does however have intrinsic angular momentum as seen in effects like Hydrogen Fine Structure, that behave exactly as though it were a ball spinning, with a set specific angular momentum. But don’t worry, the confusion is alleviated when you learn that it very definitely isn’t a ball spinning as it doesn’t have a singular spin but rather a super position of possible spin states. You can think of it like, for example, three parts spinning clockwise and one part spinning counter-clockwise.

          It usually around this point that I am reminded that the universe does not owe my puny monkey brain a lick of sense.

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            I read an article that was arguing that the universe could be unknowable to our brains. That was real depressing