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[–] 277 points 7 months ago (35 children)

It's hard to explain quantum mechanics when you don't understand them.

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  • [–] 210 points 7 months ago (18 children)

    It's hard to explain quantum mechanics even when you understand them.

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  • [–] 121 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    It's a superposition of knowledge and ignorance.

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  • [–] 87 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    The more you know the less you know

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This isn't even a joke, it's literally true in quantum mechanics.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Thank you for explaining the joke, I now know less.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You know nothing, but you know precisely about what you know nothing.

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  • [–] 60 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    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.”

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I understand them! They perform oil changes on the quantum

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    No one understands quantum mechanics

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The waves of this comment collapsed into photons entering my eyes showing me a joke about superposition once I observed it.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Quite a few people understand quantum mechanics, but they can't explain it to you if you don't understand the maths

    There's no good way of putting quantum into words, all of the descriptions are wrong in more or less subtle ways

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    A lot of us understand it as dice rolls based on shit we can't account for, more or less. Be a bit easier when someone finds out vacuum energy causes unstable isotopes to decay but I'm not nearly that smart and I'm also digressing. Kids in 300 years acting like it's common sense lol

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