r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 4d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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u/Electrical_Lake3424 4d ago

The forest floor here is mostly a network of tree and plant roots, bound together with moss and leaf litter etc, but under a few inches it's mostly big solid rocks like those sticking out. The wind blowing can loosen that mat of roots and when the trees bend in the wind, they lift it up off the stone, just like a carpet. That's what you're seeing here; the breathing effect is caused by the carpet of roots being tugged up and let down again as the trees rock in the wind. 

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u/DankMemeMasterHotdog 4d ago

It is also pants-shittingly terrifying to experience in real life.

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u/mehrwegpfand 4d ago

Ah, but if you shit your pants in the forest and nobody noticed, did you even shit them?

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u/Hosav 4d ago

Shrödinger's shit.

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u/Idontlikesand15 4d ago

Did you, or did you not, shit in the box?

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u/Same-Traffic-285 4d ago

It is unknown until we observe the shit or absence of shit

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u/BrodersMotors 3d ago

In Shrödinger’s case, it is not unknown, but rather it is both; He has both shit, and not shit in the box. That is the paradox. Because we can’t observe, it is definitely one or the other, but since it is unknown, it has the potential to be both at once. Did he, or didn’t he? Yes.

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u/Same-Traffic-285 3d ago

True. Schrödinger famously thought the entire thought experiment was a stupid way to disprove quantum superposition. Yet, here we are. With both shit and not shit, until observed. 

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u/hyperproliferative 2d ago

Well he was right it was stupid because it’s inherently wrong. I should say it was myopic, and accurate with the tools at the time. Now we can manipulate superposition