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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Well a good thing to remember re quantum mechanics, Schrƶdinger Cat is intended as a thought experiment showing how dumb the view on QM was. So it is always a bit funny to see people extrapolate from that thought experiment without acknowledging the history and issues with it. (But I think that also depends on the various interpretations, and this means Iām showing a cheekily high amount of ass here myself).
Pretty much any mention of a thought experiment in the wild gets my hackles up. āIsnāt it cool that the cat is alive and dead at the same time?ā Shut up! Shut up shut up shut up!!! Tho to be honest it might just be schrodingerās cat that comes up. I wish theyād leave the poor cat alone, and stop trying to poison it.
I have a whole series of rants about that cat, starting with how it doesnāt illuminate anything about quantum theory specifically ā as opposed to probabilistic or stochastic theories in general ā and culminating in āHey, maybe we should stop naming things after pedo creeps.ā
Not surprised that a guy who thinks about poisoning cats is a creep!
What really gets me is that we never look past Schrƶdingerās version of the cat. I want us to talk about Bellās Cat, which cannot be alive or dead due to a contradiction in elementary linear algebra and yet reliably is alive or dead once the box opens. (I guess technically it should be āaliveā, ādeadā, or āundeadā, since weāre talking spin-1 particles.)