Monday, December 8, 2008
QUANTUM MECHANICS (dun dun dunnnn)
So a cat can be alive and dead at once? I get that, if you open the door to see, anything can happen to change what was happening before measurements were taken. So basically you can't really carry out ANY experiment and collect data that's completely since you influenced the results by watching them. So there are infinitely many variables, and something will ALWAYS affect what you're doing. In otherwords, you will never be able to observe exactly what happens in nature, because by observing it, you're changing it. I'm starting to doubt all the things i notice now... maybe they're completely different when I don't notice them. Quantum Mechanics was this beautiful, brilliant concept. Then it was brought to my attention. I observe it as completely confusing, complicated, and tangled. Is it really like that? I'll never know anything except for the way I learn it... My brain hurts... I hope I find a new way to observe Quantum Mechanics before the test.
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Melanie, I completely agree with your point of view. Quantum mechanics seemed very intriguing to me too but when we began discussing it, I became more and more confused. You do bring up a good point though, that simply by observing you are changing the nature of the experiment. I think that this is really the only idea allowing me to grasp the concept. I just struggle to see why we must assume more than one thing is happening when we know that if we actually observed it, only one result would be present. I hope we can both try and understand the crazy stuff that is happening in the quantum world before the test.
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