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Quantum mechanics is really funny to me because it's such a go-to "completely inexplicable thing beyond the limits of human understanding" stand-in, but I've studied it a lot now and after you accept the basic premise, it is actually rather easy to understand and arguably easier to visualize a lot of phenomena with it. The basic premise is "if you look closely enough, energy is not continuous, but has distinct steps to it". You don't need to understand why that is, if you just accept it then thinking in steps instead of smooth curves is dead simple and you can draw funny lines and arrows in diagrams that explain exactly what's going on.
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Quantum mechanics huh? Piece of cake 
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May 21, 2018 14:24
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SilkyP posted:Quantum mechanics huh? Piece of cake I think for me as a kid, it was way harder to get into calculus, for example. Just that first exposure to higher mathematics in general, having to think fully abstract and juggle symbols, not numbers, that was a true headache. And there's not much to "click" there, you just have to get used to working with variables and meticulously applying the rules of math. I would say that quantum mechanics are way easier than that. And unless you're a Physicist (I'm still a Chemist), you don't even need calculus for quantum mechanics!
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May 21, 2018 14:45
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SilkyP posted:Quantum mechanics huh? Piece of cake I mean, yeah. Non-relativistic QM is not actually hard once you have a decent background of linear algebra and calculus. It has such a ridiculous reputation with laymen but it's not even remotely the hardest subject you can study in physics.
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May 21, 2018 14:50
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SilkyP posted:Quantum mechanics huh? Piece of cake Kind of, yeah, for practical purposes anyway. Even rocket science isn't rocket science anymore.
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May 21, 2018 15:17
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Even Einstein was a bit "...the gently caress?" with quantum mechanics so it shouldn't be surprising that most people have difficulty with it.
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May 21, 2018 15:30
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I remember learning to apply quantum mechanics to explain patterns in the periodic table and it was one of the coolest moments I had in university but I'll be damned if I could ever explain it to anyone else who didn't take that class. Or even anyone who has a background because it was quite a few years ago and at this point It's the memory of understanding it rather than actually still knowing it.
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May 21, 2018 15:38
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All I know about quantum mechanics is that no one can be gay because balls never really touch.
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May 21, 2018 15:48
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Quantum mechanics mean that anything can happen at any time, for no reason
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May 21, 2018 15:59
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Improbable Lobster posted:Quantum mechanics mean that anything can happen at any time, for no reason No, you're thinking about politics.
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May 21, 2018 16:05
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Simply Simon posted:The basic premise is "if you look closely enough, energy is not continuous, but has distinct steps to it". You don't need to understand why that is, if you just accept it then thinking in steps instead of smooth curves is dead simple and you can draw funny lines and arrows in diagrams that explain exactly what's going on. This is totally not a widely accepted theory or anything, but the best explanation I've heard for a non-continuous universe is this. Whatever state or flux or whatever the universe spawned from has smaller steps or none at all. Because informational density given a certain framework becomes impossible if something of similar complexity comes into being within it. So when the universe came into being it had a cruder informational resolution to preserve the integrity of the originating space. Or you know M-theory which just shits all over everything but who knows.
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May 21, 2018 16:24
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just lol if you're not already a fourth dimensional being traveling directly through an orange
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May 21, 2018 16:26
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SilkyP posted:Quantum mechanics huh? Piece of cake Only if you want to have it and eat it.
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May 21, 2018 16:35
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It's not the most complicated thing, but it's pretty complicated and extremely unintuitive.
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May 21, 2018 16:41
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china bot posted:just lol if you're not already a fourth dimensional being traveling directly through an orange You're making the 4th dimension all sticky and filled with ants china bot!
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May 21, 2018 16:52
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Oh, is that what that scene in Call Me By Your Name is supposed to represent?
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May 21, 2018 16:58
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Spanish Manlove posted:All I know about quantum mechanics is that no one can be gay because balls never really touch. That's classical mechanics, stupid!
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May 21, 2018 17:01
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has anyone got any good quantum mechanics puns
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May 21, 2018 18:12
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:has anyone got any good quantum mechanics puns Your mom's so fat I can measure both her position and momentum at the same time. e: wait poo poo that's not a pun.
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May 21, 2018 18:19
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The highest level math I ever took was algebra. EDIT: Sorry, I thought this was some kind of new PYF Math Class That You Took thread.
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May 21, 2018 18:27
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:has anyone got any good quantum mechanics puns N0.
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May 21, 2018 18:29
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What are you, Higgs Boson? Cause you're being a real masshole.
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May 21, 2018 18:49
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Sagebrush posted:That's classical mechanics, stupid! More of a Zeno's Reacharound tbh
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:has anyone got any good quantum mechanics puns A dyslexic quantum physicist walks into a ket. . .
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:has anyone got any good quantum mechanics puns You had to ask. We were doing just Feyn, man.
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Jedit posted:Only if you want to have it and eat it. Nice.
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May 21, 2018 23:08
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Lobok posted:Even Einstein was a bit "...the gently caress?" with quantum mechanics so it shouldn't be surprising that most people have difficulty with it. Part of that was because it had implications he really didn't like. That's why he said "spooky action at a distance" and tried to come up with numbers that refuted it. QM break minds because it's pretty unintuitive. You learn regular physics then you get to quantum physics and it just goes "lol nah that ain't me." Einstein admitted late in his life that he was wrong about some of the things he actively rejected.
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Simply Simon posted:Quantum mechanics is really funny to me because it's such a go-to "completely inexplicable thing beyond the limits of human understanding" stand-in, but I've studied it a lot now and after you accept the basic premise, it is actually rather easy to understand and arguably easier to visualize a lot of phenomena with it. The basic premise is "if you look closely enough, energy is not continuous, but has distinct steps to it". You don't need to understand why that is, if you just accept it then thinking in steps instead of smooth curves is dead simple and you can draw funny lines and arrows in diagrams that explain exactly what's going on. this is actually correct, quantum physics gets a bad rap. unlike string theory, which is a pseudoscience with much less value than the bee spell i posted (because the bee spell is testable)
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:has anyone got any good quantum mechanics puns i did have a joke about a quantum tunnelling but it's escaped me
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Caesar Saladin posted:i wonder what it was like to be autistic back in the medieval times. Probably easier because there was less crazy lights and noises. People would be like "he's a bit daft but he's an okay fella." No trains though.
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May 22, 2018 02:12
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Does it matter?
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May 22, 2018 02:15
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I have a story about an autistic caveman where he will only kill elk with asymmetrical antlers
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May 22, 2018 02:21
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I'm sure they were just super into stage coaches or horses or lances or something.
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May 22, 2018 02:38
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My guess is heraldry or vexillology.
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Flags! Of course it would be flags.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:this is actually correct, quantum physics gets a bad rap. i mean at least quantum mechanics makes predictions that can be empirically verified, even if no one really knows why it works but bees, man. nobody knows why bees do things. they just do
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Sagebrush posted:i mean at least quantum mechanics makes predictions that can be empirically verified, even if no one really knows why it works Maybe it's none of your beeswax?! <  >
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Maybe it's none of your beeswax?! < I think that experiment makes it very much their beeswax. Eventually.
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Sagebrush posted:i mean at least quantum mechanics makes predictions that can be empirically verified, even if no one really knows why it works That is, of course, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
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autistic people in medieval times became monks and spent their lives painting secret dicks into illuminated manuscripts, unless they were women, in which case they were usually burnt at the stake like most women were back then
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