I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Both quotes attributed to Richard Feynman.
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I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can't explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.
We all end up looking at cats in boxes pictures on the internet whenever we start to try to understand oh wow this cat is funny.
I like watching it in action. I don't know what the hell is going on, but it gives me a strange kind of peace, and if you stare at it long enough, you trick yourself into thinking that it makes some kind of sense.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
good bot
Such a warrior!
It's hard to explain quantum mechanics when you don't understand them.
I understand them! They perform oil changes on the quantum
They're so good they fix your car on the quantum level!
Thats the joke!
It's hard to explain quantum mechanics even when you understand them.
There’s an old joke about quantum mechanics professors starting their first lecture with something along the lines of “right now, some of you probably understand quantum mechanics. By the end of the semester, if I did my job right, none of us will understand it.”
If they're lucky they might understand kubernetes though.
It's a superposition of knowledge and ignorance.
The more you know the less you know
Sometimes I get the sense that I have a clear picture of quantum mechanics. But when I look closer, it gets all blurry.
Congratulations, you’ve successfully explained quantum mechanics.
This isn't even a joke, it's literally true in quantum mechanics.
Thank you for explaining the joke, I now know less.
You know nothing, but you know precisely about what you know nothing.
Only before you check, though.
The more you know of one thing the less you know of the other*
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I thought that was like its thing. It doesn't really make sense.
No one understands quantum mechanics
Whoa. Blakeception
You both understand and don't understand quantum mechanics at the same time... It's that simple, that is until such a point at which becomes known as to whether or not you understand or don't understand quantum physics and then some kind of quantum tunnel collapses?
No habla English
Vos me queres decir que entender mecanica cuantica es como entender el final de evangelion?
The waves of this comment collapsed into photons entering my eyes showing me a joke about superposition once I observed it.
You should Hadamard again to reverse the superposition.
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That was the point, right?
It's hard to explain jokes when you don't understand them.
Cropped so I get the authentic glaucoma experience.
A delightful character arc.
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