ok, this is offiically the best thing I have seen all day.
Came here to say exactly that.
Great execution on the artistic side here
POV, you’re the main character of Dark Matter and you’re trippin’ in the magic box-portal to the multiverse.
Turns out you just have to take a picture.
Outer wilds fam reporting in
Oh wow, I can’t believe that outerwilds has successfully taught me the concept of quantum observation.
it isn’t scientifically accurate…
what the bleep do we know just fucking ruined any chance at lay people understanding dick about quantum physics for at least a generation
Quantum mechanics is not complicated. It just appears complicated because everyone chooses to interpret it in a way that is inherently contradictory. One of the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics is that it is time-symmetric, called unitarity, but almost everyone for some reason assumes it is time-asymmetric. This contradiction leads them to have to compartmentalize this contradiction in their head, which then leads to a bunch of a contradictory conclusions, and then they invent a bunch of nonsense to try and make sense of those contradictions, like collapsing wave functions, a multiverse, cats that are both dead and alive simultaneously, particles in two places at once, nonlocality, etc. But that’s all entirely unnecessary if you just consistently interpret the theory as time-symmetric. This has been shown in the literature for decades, called the Two-State Vector Formalism, yet it’s almost entirely ignored in the popular discourse for some reason.
But that wasn’t the thing I was even talking about when I said the game is not accurate. In real life, if you “take a picture” of an electron’s location while it is buzzing around the nucleus unpredictably, it doesn’t stay in that last position as long as you continue looking at the “picture”. It will continue buzzing around the nucleus unpredictability and your “picture” is just its location in an instantaneous moment. Also, the unpredictable movement of particles is not nonlocal, they cannot suddenly hop from one side of the solar system to the other. You can only find them in places that they would have had enough time to reach.
How does that explain photons acting like a wave or a particle depending on whether they were observed or not in the double slit experiment?
I love it