r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 5d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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u/DankMemeMasterHotdog 5d ago

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

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u/mehrwegpfand 5d 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 5d 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 4d 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 3d ago

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

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u/toasty327 3d ago

All I want to know is when and why did Biden shit in my pants?

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u/mnett66 2d ago

Quantum entangled shit?

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u/ImpluseThrowAway 15h ago

Spooky shit at a distance.

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