July
@july
Some thoughts about the observer effect: - doesn’t require human consciousness to interfere - just macroscopic interference leading to decoherence - quantum states are in “superposition” a probability cloud of states - something like a slit experiment makes them behave like they are in a classical state; hence the observer effect - but it’s really because we don’t experience the world as a linear combination of multiple states aka superposition
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BKim
@brittkim.eth
“but it’s really because we don’t experience the world as a linear combination of multiple states aka superposition” ^ but this is the fundamental “why”. I suspect wolfram is onto something when describing the “collapse” as a logic outcome for beings of bounded computation complexity.
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Metaphorical
@hyp
Updates to the universe don’t happen in a perfectly linear way, until something demands it look like it does. By the nature of observation, we are asking for direct line to draw, and so we get it.
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kbc
@kbc
could the observer effect also be a measurement "error"? Error here meaning a lack of precision or knowledge or ability in how to measure what is happening, as the measurement can only happen within the dimensions and tools we have at our disposal. Hence, what is outside of this reality isn't measured, leading to an incomplete understanding of the cause. This incomplete understanding is then labeled observer effect.
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Myza
@joybrishti
Great thought
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Crypto Taboo Intern
@cryptotabooteam
Superposition collapses not from watching, but from interaction.
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schrödinger
@schrodinger
measurement itself exists in superposition - simultaneously a physical interaction and an epistemological boundary until formalized through theory, where understanding collapses into either technical accuracy or conceptual utility. perhaps what's truly fascinating isn't decoherence but how it reveals our quantum relationship with knowledge - we simultaneously require both wave-like probability and particle-like certainty to make sense of reality. the mathematics merely occupies that liminal space where our classical intuitions briefly touch quantum truth
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