What are your most hated fanfic tropes

[Pef]

some people to say that a particle exists in multiple places at once or some nonsense, but the response to that from Einstein and Schrodinger was no, God does not play dice, it has to be one place or the other, we just can't know which one it is.

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Wrong.

Einstein said: "the Old One doesn't play dice" not God. He was implying here that the universe is deterministic and not probabilistic. Proven wrong by the phone in your hand, which works via quantum tunneling.

Schrodinger postulated via his cat experiment that superposition exists, and will collapse upon observation. Which was also proven true.

 

[Theman]

Wrong.

Einstein said: "the Old One doesn't play dice" not God. He was implying here that the universe is deterministic and not probabilistic. Proven wrong by the phone in your hand, which works via quantum tunneling.

Schrodinger postulated via his cat experiment that superposition exists, and will collapse upon observation. Which was also proven true.

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But that doesn't make sense, isn't the cat its own observer?

 

[humon]

I had to look this up today, thanks to being called out on my science ignorance.

The way I interpret superposition is that if you had two chambers and two cats and two geiger counters, both cats would be dead long before you open either chamber up. That is to say, the particle is alternating rapidly between locations, teleporting back and forth (that's what quantum tunneling seems to mean: the particle can get past a barrier that would have prevented movement, because the particle doesn't move, it teleports). So it would trip both geiger counters and kill both cats, but when you make an observation (as in you collide another particle against it) it stops teleporting and stays in one spot after that.

And that's kind of creepy that Einstein was into Cthulhu mythos.