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Autism and Quantum Mechanics (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by tkk13909@sopuli.xyz to c/autism@lemmy.world
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I can't be the only one who absolutely hates the idea of a particle having two states at once, right? Is it just a personal thing or is it tied somehow to the fact that autistic people generally have more binary thinking?

Forgive me if it's a stupid question. I'm still trying to figure out how this all works and whether I'm autistic or not.

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[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I always thought it was just not possible to measure… without changing [the system being measured]

This is the observer effect, which is certainly not unique to quantum mechanics.

I always liked to think of it like christmas presents - you don’t know what the inside looks like until you open it. It could be anything!

That analogy is suggestive of hidden variables. Hidden variables theories are severely constrained by observed violations of Bell's inequality. Without loopholes like non-locality, there cannot be a "hidden" definite value underlying a superposition state.

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