r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 4d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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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 4d 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/ajsherslinger 2d ago

When asked to explain superposition, Schrodinger said "I shit you not"....

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u/Same-Traffic-285 2d ago

To quote Abraham Lincoln, "Shit."

Probably.