It's a superposition of knowledge and ignorance.

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.”

I thought that was like its thing. It doesn't really make sense.

They're so good they fix your car on the quantum level!

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

Whoa. Blakeception

Then why do I have anti- matter in my trunk?

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

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

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

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.

You know what, i keep thinking that maybe, our universe is the only universe that actually functions. Like, if the universe was in some different way, it either wouldn't work and we would therefore not exist to observe it, or it would be equivalent to this universe, i.e. maybe not exactly equal, but similar in some way, sothat we could form abstractions and arrive at the same universal laws that we have today. Including quantum mechanics.

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.

I can tell a piece of software to do the maths for ms. Sometimes the results appear to work with reality.

People complain about LLMs hallucinating, but they have no idea of how many assumptions and just plain "everybody does it this way, I guess it works" are there in scientific research.

We've learned rather a lot since then.

imagine calling one of the greatest science educators of the modern era “plain stupid”

Yes

I was just referring to an old internet joke that was in the same vein as this post.

And we all know that technically correct is the best kind of correct.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Nah.