"Zombie" Fly That is Both Dead and Alive-Real-life Schrödinger's Cat (Fly) Experiment

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5 жыл бұрын

Superposition video: goo.gl/YfViNQ
In this video I perform Schrodinger's cat experiment, but I actually do the experiment in real life. Except I don't use a cat, I use some fruit flies from my house. I put them in state of superposition by coupling the quantum state of radon with my vacuum chamber that turns on if there are more than 3 clicks per second in background radiation.
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@TheActionLab 5 жыл бұрын

Hi everyone. I see a lot of comments comparing superposition to just simply not knowing a specific outcome. But it is not only that we don't know the outcome, but it HAS NO outcome until it is measured. This was proven in my previous video with polarizers showing how the photons have no polariziation until they are measured, it's not just that we don't know it.

@neelpetersen9893 5 жыл бұрын

The Action Lab I love your pronounciation on Schrödinger😂❤️

@tribalrhino 5 жыл бұрын

I love your videos. However, Your previous video did not prove anything about superpositioned photons (the first polarizer lets about 90% of the light through as it's darker than the white softbox screen, the second polarizer lets 100% of the light through that went through the first polarizer cuz it doesn't get darker until you change the direction. If it were superposition, you'd have some shirty electrons that refused to go through, like you 50/50 black/white testy box) but was a great way of explaining superposition, I'll probably use that :) I remember having a big discussion with my physics teacher about Schrodinger. If you listen for the drop of the bottle of poison, then without measuring the cat, you know its state (barring heart attack from something else or suffocation I guess). Or, if the detector made a ping noise... anyhow, my point is indirect measurement means that while *you* may not know what the state is, something does. I think you covered that at the end. Anyhow, in case you were wondering, I was allowed out of detention early cuz everyone loves a smartarse :)

@rickyrich1099 5 жыл бұрын

Indeed photons are quantum objects: meaning that the measure of their polarization has no outcome until you measure it, while the Cat (or the flies) are macroscopic objects, therefore your experiment has an outcome even before you measure it.

@PaulFred7 5 жыл бұрын

I understand your point about superposition, but what you said about polarized light is false. There are plenty of things that emit polarized light without needing to "measure" it based on how you are using the word 'measure'.

@devlinmcguire7543 5 жыл бұрын

Why is it that you sound so much like Mat from PBS Spacetime when you said *"Shut up and calculate!"* ?

@theodorboon 5 жыл бұрын

Schrödinger’s Cat WANTED Dead *and* Alive

@aragon2235 5 жыл бұрын

Good and relevant RDR2 reference. Good job.

@ethanhair1460 5 жыл бұрын

@@aragon2235 How is that a Star Wars reference?

@ethanhair1460 5 жыл бұрын

@Bob Ross That could be an anything reference

@youareanidiot855 5 жыл бұрын

Bob Ross That’s a nothing reference it’s a joke about the video

@ethanhair1460 5 жыл бұрын

@Bob Ross ... I misread that comment. My bad.

@ar00042 5 жыл бұрын

Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar... And doesn’t....

@inthelimelight2680 4 жыл бұрын

Atharva Raje I’m not in the bar right now, and haven’t seen the cat, so I guess I’ll just have to find out

@dashalonmarrs1490 4 жыл бұрын

Atharva Raje this is my favorite comment of all time...

@nersie4699 4 жыл бұрын

@@dashalonmarrs1490 its stolen

@eazy1726 3 жыл бұрын

Stolen comment lol attention seekers will do anything to get attention

@ErenYeager-vt1uc 3 жыл бұрын

@ZigZagsss 5 жыл бұрын

I didnt fart until you smell it

@fordtechchris 5 жыл бұрын

But he who smelt it, dealt it.... So did you ever Fart?

@ZigZagsss 5 жыл бұрын

@@fordtechchris exactly, quantum mechanics

@esgow_ 3 жыл бұрын

But if they hear you fart

@flufferfluffierman 3 жыл бұрын

Shrödinger’s fart

@kalmkalm7924 3 жыл бұрын

@@flufferfluffierman oh ff

@aniruddhadas3606 5 жыл бұрын

*Schrödinger's cat to Schrödinger:* am i a joke to you.

@utkarshsharma9563 5 жыл бұрын

Or am I not?

@doorknobflavors8887 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, Schrodinger didn’t use hisccat, he just made this theory, no cat died

@thelordofcheese3304 4 жыл бұрын

Doorknob Flavours r/woooosh

@Mich-oh2gr 4 жыл бұрын

Well yes and no

@zeuxlaught2797 3 жыл бұрын

didn't he actually owned a cat?

@mynameisJEFF-ym8vq 5 жыл бұрын

The moment when you drop your phone face down. Its both cracked and not cracked at the same time until you check

@PerfectDarkcontrol 5 жыл бұрын

that is actually a really good example^^

@eddysw8549 5 жыл бұрын

Never thought of it like that. That’s a good example tho

@PeepingUkulele 5 жыл бұрын

🤣

@athosiza4457 5 жыл бұрын

it already cracked or didn't, either way you just haven't checked yet.

@kylerharris4246 5 жыл бұрын

What if you hear it crack after it falls but before you pick it up

@Billy123bobzzz 5 жыл бұрын

This video didn't exist until I watched it.

@EmdrGreg 5 жыл бұрын

Or-- it neither existed nor did it not exist?

@ethanhair1460 5 жыл бұрын

Exist*

@bizarrebread1512 5 жыл бұрын

No it don't really work like that. Even if u didn't see it still exists because others saw this video there for it doesn't exist until someone saw it.

@Billy123bobzzz 5 жыл бұрын

@@bizarrebread1512 Yes it does, since I' the observer then everyone else is inside the box and are in superposition until I observe.

@alejrandom6592 5 жыл бұрын

@@bizarrebread1512 then cat cant be dead and alive

@katcubed 5 жыл бұрын

When my family leaves me home, I’m both dead and alive.

@SSADO- 3 жыл бұрын

When you commented your comment, it was in a state of existing and not existing, until i saw it a year later to confirm it existed.

@lenziin_.13 3 жыл бұрын

yup MORE ROBLOX PLAYERS MORE MORE me: e

@Kuirameto 3 жыл бұрын

WAIT HOW DID I FIND THIS THING HERE

@katcubed 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kuirameto bruh i dont even remember making this comment wtf u doin here

@Kuirameto 3 жыл бұрын

@@katcubed i was just watching science stuff because im interested in them wth

@killallbots1012 5 жыл бұрын

5:25 I can see how disappointed he is that the fly did not die. lol

@spacemanspiff4985 4 жыл бұрын

KillAllBots 101 “Fate *sigh* was in their favor”

@happyface4036 2 жыл бұрын

Or he is not disappointed but we disappointed

@SAIYANPRINCE777 5 жыл бұрын

Just like my homework until teacher checks it.

@seanleith5312 3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe we are talking about this kind of nonsense. If I want to hear this, I would talk to a psychiatrist.

@crazyOscar-gy8ul 3 жыл бұрын

@ArkinMC 5 жыл бұрын

The fascinating about quantum mechanics actually is: it makes sense and confuses at the same time.

@bruh____784 2 жыл бұрын

Superposition.

@quantumzx6132 2 жыл бұрын

yes my superposition* is quite fascinating

@awaywithwords9650 2 жыл бұрын

Logical ≠ Sensical

@MicheleDelGiudice-mykys 2 жыл бұрын

It makes sense but it shouldn't.

@LaserKatze Жыл бұрын

@@MicheleDelGiudice-mykys it’s logical but doesn’t make sense, because you can’t be dead and alive at the same time

@healwix 2 жыл бұрын

Man, never end your KZfaq career! You are making me so motivated to learn things that don't actually inspire me. Absolutely loving you and your videos.

@AlgoatAll 5 жыл бұрын

This one almost falls into philosophy territory

@jamastrollfingaz5496 5 жыл бұрын

Hyper theoretic philosophy.

@connorcriss 5 жыл бұрын

Adventist superposition is not something to study if you’re dumb

@connorcriss 5 жыл бұрын

Adventist Absurd doesn’t mean not real. Quantum mechanics is the only theory that is as strongly supported by science as the theory of relativity.

@connorcriss 5 жыл бұрын

Adventist On a macro level it _can_ work, but the problem is that there’s so many particles in something like a human that for it to have a superposition, every single particle would need to agree on that superposition, which is incredibly unlikely. The purpose of this experiment was to take smaller particles, like electrons from a radioactive substance, which can easily be in superposition, and have their position affect fruit flies on a macro scale. He did explain in the video at the end why it didn’t really work, and even if it hadn’t had the camera and the Geiger counter there would still be photons hitting the particles and measuring them. If he did it in a very dark room, and made the radioactive substance somehow kill the fruit flies directly, it could have worked.

@michakubisz535 3 жыл бұрын

All chemical reactions are actually measurements and collapses of quantum states. Does chemistry involve philosophy? :)

@user-bd2bk3kc7k 5 жыл бұрын

Put a neutron star next to the fly

@Gio-yz8rm 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah that would be cool

@BananaGamerEveryday 5 жыл бұрын

N I BB A

@user-bd2bk3kc7k 5 жыл бұрын

🅱️I🅱️🅱️A

@roflel 5 жыл бұрын

@Benjamin McMullan the fly would win wym

@gl7029 5 жыл бұрын

@@roflel wat

@brandond5441 5 жыл бұрын

You're dead or alive in a super position state until you're friends or family check on you lol.

@smokey04200420 3 жыл бұрын

You seem to be confused about this. It’s not dead or alive. It is both dead and alive. That is what superposition means.

@minacapella8319 2 жыл бұрын

The thing I love most about quantum mechanics is stuff like how light changes how it behaves depending on observation.

@ProPlayer-wq3nu 5 жыл бұрын

Your title choices are getting more and more confusing

@ivyistiredeepysleepy 5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. +1

@Blox117 5 жыл бұрын

fly lives matter!!! reported for fly cruelty!!!

@Blox117 5 жыл бұрын

but the real question is: do flies feel pain? or even think consciously at all

@Blox117 5 жыл бұрын

@@Riskteven lol who doesnt know basic math?

@Blox117 5 жыл бұрын

@@Riskteven speculating on things that do not exist is insanity. just look at flat earthers

@MrDerp-cs9jh 5 жыл бұрын

Can I summon him? The Action Lab The Action Lab The Action Lab

@TheActionLab 5 жыл бұрын

Hi!

@ivyistiredeepysleepy 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheActionLab HI SHISHTARSH

@nerdrulesu 5 жыл бұрын

holy !$#+ it worked

@devlinmcguire7543 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheActionLab We will build a weird shrine in you honor... It will be a gigantic vacuum chamber the size of a room.

@y33t23 5 жыл бұрын

I wish that it would work, then I would summon him and replace all my teachers.

@arsarstarst 5 жыл бұрын

It´s for saving RAM duh.. we all live in a simulation.

@priyanshugoel3030 5 жыл бұрын

That was what i proposed once too but i was segregated with flat earthers

@grantadamson3478 5 жыл бұрын

@@priyanshugoel3030 LOL

@ninxstation 5 жыл бұрын

That's some aggressive memory management. Probably we should stick more Ram sticks on the universe simulator god-computer.

@fib7615 5 жыл бұрын

If we live in a simulation, does that mean the aliens controlling the simulator is also in a simulation?

@sohamsengupta6470 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah loading all chunks takes too much time and processing power

@f4dy 5 жыл бұрын

Please do more quantum mechanics videos like this! I'm an EE in my thirties, never did QM in school, so I never really had a clue about it. Your videos are finally making things understandable. Keep up the great work!

@dacoconutnut9503 5 жыл бұрын

Why is the butterfly not made with butter?

@thealientree3821 5 жыл бұрын

Kowalski! Status report!

@tgnm9615 5 жыл бұрын

Jordan Botelho323 kowalski analysis

@itssaad8663 5 жыл бұрын

Wired flex , but ok

@Emily-me 5 жыл бұрын

People used to think that insect stole butter. Also one of the common species is a color that resembles that of butter.

@jennyeam399 5 жыл бұрын

_report.exe_attempt_fixed.

@MammaOVlogs 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Amazing ! Now do this with real Zombies or do the zombies not become zombies til you make them zombies? Now l am confused!

@Brawlio13 5 жыл бұрын

Momma O but... zombies are already dead and alive. Hence the living dead. So in theory... there would be no effect?

@NeoMetalKNIGHT 5 жыл бұрын

Well not to mention but ... phisically dead inside doesn't mean to be dead in real life, it's not related to math and logic. Quantums are related to technologies and A.I.s, so this explain how an artificial intelligence could learn, think and autocorrect itself. The superposition in psychology could be like an ultra brain capable to go everywhere and stay on his own position without moving, like a ghost. Ps: So I imagine next time we will see an experiment about Ghosties and how to summon demons XD

@MammaOVlogs 5 жыл бұрын

@@Brawlio13 lol so true

@MammaOVlogs 5 жыл бұрын

@@NeoMetalKNIGHT whoa! now l really am confused lol

@lordlunacy6020 5 жыл бұрын

If a tree poops in the woods does a bear still make a sound?

@dariusfilip4695 3 жыл бұрын

*what?* so if a TREE POOPS in the woods does A BEAR still MAKE A SOUND? explain to me

@alexy.9306 3 жыл бұрын

Wtf don't you mean if a tree falls over in the woods did it make a sound if no one was around to hear it?

@nevogolan6505 2 жыл бұрын

If a tree pooped in the woods, how much would people pay to see genuine tree poop?

@elliottwalker8624 5 жыл бұрын

The only thing that confuses me about the thought experiment- since you are using a living being (the cat, or in this case the fly), doesn't that mean that the state HAS been measured? The cat would be able to tell whether or not it's dead through its consciousness. I may just be looking at this wrong, so if someone wouldn't mind explaining it to me it would be much appreciated.

@hundenhugo1 5 жыл бұрын

Schrödinger assumes cats don't have an intelligent consciousness

@hundenhugo1 5 жыл бұрын

Nevermind I was proven wrong. Observation has nothing to do with consciousness but rather messurement. Sort of.

@edsilver 5 жыл бұрын

This video is wrong. The flies are technically being observed by any light or particles hitting them. It does not have to be a person. The original Shrodingers cat is simply theoretical and relies on there not being anything in the box apart from a "cat" that has nothing happening inside it otherwise it would count as being observed. It is just a way of explaining it and demonstrates the difference between maths and physics and real life. I'm not hating on "The Action Lab", they make some good videos... this one is just s**t.

@PaulFred7 5 жыл бұрын

Except he is completely mistaken because consciousness is not required at all for a measurement. All the atoms in the air colliding with the flies and photons hitting them are "measuring" them constantly at every moment.

@aaroncurtis8545 4 жыл бұрын

He did address this issue. Like he said, it depends on your interpretation of qm.

@roshnelson4346 5 жыл бұрын

*has made a video of putting his hand in a vacuum chamber “okay today we are going to be getting a little bit crazy”

@devlinmcguire7543 5 жыл бұрын

XD true

@aidencommodore8781 5 жыл бұрын

And i just read that in his voice.

@srinivasaraju7840 5 жыл бұрын

I also thought the same thing

@toastersneedtoast329 5 жыл бұрын

He made a video of being in a vacuum

@wolfiegames2442 5 жыл бұрын

I just can't understand this KZfaq channel anymore. But it's still the best, I dunno Edit: stop paying attention to my comment oh my goD

@klinky 5 жыл бұрын

It's the best and the worst at the same time...

@randylock2058 5 жыл бұрын

I agree, I am totally lost with this concept. I feel like this is when hes going to start advertising Scientology.

@bizarrebread1512 5 жыл бұрын

This is basically about you not knowing if a thing is dead or not and that's the experiment

@hiru92 5 жыл бұрын

its quantum machenics ...

@DaP84 5 жыл бұрын

Crispy Memez nope, it's much more deep than that! It's about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device. Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/esyAmNOjtp3Td5c.html

@ThatShyGuyMatt 5 жыл бұрын

I'm near 40 and the cat thing never made sense to me until now. You explained it in easy terms. Mind blown!

@shade5554 5 жыл бұрын

Radiation does not occur until you measure it?

@MeatBunFul 5 жыл бұрын

It does occur. It's just that the result is ambiguous untill measued.

@speed2574 5 жыл бұрын

That means the radiation was in a super position till he measured it..

@minsukseo 5 жыл бұрын

may or may not radiate until observe it

@djhuntsman7504 5 жыл бұрын

So as long as I don't measure radiation it's not harmful because it hasn't been measured and proven deadly?

@wiretamer5710 5 жыл бұрын

Assume you know the exact number of unstable atoms in the experiment. You can know the exact rate of decay in theory. You can know how exactly how long it will take for half of the atoms to decay, but you can never know in what chronological order each atom will decay. This may sound intuitive and logical UNTIL you really understand that the half life of any radioactive element is a constant. If the decay of individual atoms is random, what is to stop all of them decaying in bunches, or all at once? For the half life to be a constant period of time, the individual atoms have to 'wait their turn' to decay, so no jumping the cue. So how does an atom 'know' when to decay? Take two (sub-critical) quantities of the same radioactive material and put them together in a container. Providing the collective mass remains sub critical, the rate of atomic decay WILL NOT CHANGE. WTF? You have changed the total number of atoms, the rate of decay remains the same, the half life of the material remains the same? WTF? Its not like adding more water to a bucket of water with a hole in it. Quantum theory is odd...

@KnightSlasher 5 жыл бұрын

Will it eat meh brain

@TheActionLab 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I let it go. It will find you. And it will eat your brain

@timoking7650 5 жыл бұрын

No cause you dont have any

@duckguide4109 5 жыл бұрын

No, cause you don’t got one 😂 😂

@ChallengeTheNarrative 5 жыл бұрын

@@duckguide4109 *haven't

@duckguide4109 5 жыл бұрын

Pseudo Nym Ik, I purposely said it the way I did...

@yobittu7452 5 жыл бұрын

Next Video Idea : Can you physically store sound in a box or container or in anything of some sort.

@joshuaosei5628 5 жыл бұрын

Think of sound as vibrations. As long as the air particles are moving, there will be sound. So theoretically possible, but anything vibrating will pass its energy on, and eventually that energy will be transferred to the walls of its container, and then out of it.

@Scouderz 5 жыл бұрын

Kowalski, analysis

@xx_amongus_xx6987 5 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaosei5628 Making believe that the walls of the container will hold in any energy without absorbing it... would the sound vibrations' energy eventually fade away into nothing or?

@waveplasma1369 5 жыл бұрын

If the box lies within a perfect vacuum and is levitating, yes

@milesromanus7041 3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaosei5628 the speed of sound is variable, counting on the material, and temperature. I think it's possible to tinker the temperature and the material so that you can delay the time it takes for the sound waves to reach the walls of the box, no idea by how much though..

@playsparkanims6540 5 жыл бұрын

The shrodinger cat is sleeping But it's awake

@rickyrich1099 5 жыл бұрын

Actually Shrödinger introduced the Cat experiment in order to show how the superposition theory resulted paradoxical when applied to macro objects. Indeed the cat is dead or alive every moment before the measurement and when you open the box you just find out if it died or not, it is not you forcing the Cat to choose one state or the other. The superposition of states works just fine in quantum objects experiments like the double slit, where if you don't measure which slit the particle is passing through, it just goes through both of them. Nice video as always, keep it up man.

@jayfunk13 5 жыл бұрын

Until you use a real cat this experiment is not valid. I volunteer my girlfriends cat

@itsshrimp91 5 жыл бұрын

Agreeable.

@mariacarlacabrera 5 жыл бұрын

Asshole

@erikhendrych190 5 жыл бұрын

plot twist your ex's cat

@wh1plashhhhhh 5 жыл бұрын

A lion is a cat

@blankcat5005 4 жыл бұрын

@@mariacarlacabrera no u

@ADRENERGlC 5 жыл бұрын

*This could be straight from a jigsaw movie!*

@Dumbc0mment 5 жыл бұрын

Every time I watch your videos, when you explain something I feel like you have a pain somewhere, feel like you're tense, like you're going to cry at any time. It's not a criticism, in fact I find it funny :) and I like your channel

@ftlPhysicsGuy 5 жыл бұрын

I find one of the most interesting conclusion of this thought experiment is that *I* have no idea if anything else is in a state of "non-superposition" until *I* observer it. If you observe the results of an experiment and come to tell me, then until you tell me, I can think of you as being in a state of superposition yourself (with each version having observed a different result of the experiment). The flies don't have to collapse the wave function, you don't have to collapse the wave function, but once you tell me, then and only then do I know the wave function has collapsed. But each of us can make that same claim, so we could each claim to be the one and only being who collapses all wave functions in the universe. Gotta love QM.

@raypimienta7670 5 жыл бұрын

is this were "curiosity killed the cat" came from

@spawnofsatan1796 5 жыл бұрын

16 seconds ago? Really? This early? Or is my youtube broken?

@TheActionLab 5 жыл бұрын

You are just that awesome!

@Rowdy106 5 жыл бұрын

Oof

@draketungsten74 5 жыл бұрын

It wasn't posted until you observed it.

@JaDo426 5 жыл бұрын

@@draketungsten74 yeah the video was in a state of superposition

@lampion4490 5 жыл бұрын

I love these experiments! Always interesting to watch! :)

@juicer2688 5 жыл бұрын

It’s, ironically, insane how you can talk for 15 mins about how something is dead and alive at the same time and not be called crazy

@theblackreaper4395 5 жыл бұрын

My brain is in a superposition of confusion and fascination

@athosiza4457 5 жыл бұрын

Measure it bro

@TechnoEstate 5 жыл бұрын

So it's basically the good ol' "When a tree falls in the woods, and no one's / nothing's there to detect it, does it make a sound (and does it even actually fall)?"

@TheIcy001 5 жыл бұрын

A popular theory I like is that the state of your brain is also a quantum state and in fact, nothing is being collapsed at all when you measure; it is your brain's quantum state that is being entangled with the object's state.

@johnzorkon3540 Ай бұрын

You realize of course, that this is just a reworked version of the old adage: if a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it does it make a sound

@hqcart1 5 жыл бұрын

I have never met you, so, YOU ARE DEAD AND ALIVE. until we meet, i'll measure you!

@PRGME7 Ай бұрын

Right back at you! 😇

@nossonweissman 5 жыл бұрын

"Fate was in their favor" xD

@BharathinfinityHegde 5 жыл бұрын

I like this video more than I normally l like your videos because of that bit of explanation in the end, which was interesting and simpler than most I've heard about this topic and you showed your face instead of your hand while talking/explaining.

@eagle3676 5 жыл бұрын

Measurement(observation or interaction) is actually just the light hitting the flies or particles colliding with them. That's why quantum mechanics is thought of as small scale. But in reality it's how well hidden you keep something so that no interaction occurs. And that happens a lot easier and more frequent in micro-scales

@aaryankhairnar69 5 жыл бұрын

when you observe it the universe splits into two where in one the fly is alive and in other it's dead that's called parallel universes

@joeferdin9871 3 жыл бұрын

So the outcome basically decides two different storylines...?

@aaryankhairnar69 3 жыл бұрын

@@joeferdin9871 yeah kinda

@joeferdin9871 3 жыл бұрын

@@aaryankhairnar69 But that's impossible:/

@aaryankhairnar69 3 жыл бұрын

@@joeferdin9871 yeah it's a hypothesis

@jensphiliphohmann1876 5 жыл бұрын

I think the 'a human must look at it to collapse the state' - interpretation at least hits the border to quantum esoterics. There is surprisingly am indirect test of that hypothesis by a phenomenon called the quantum Zeno effect. This is based on the fact that the probabilities for the alternative outcomes don't develop linearly, thus being the first of them overproportionally more likely than the second for some time. Observation thus kinda turns back the clock. In radioactivity, this doesn't seem to work but rather a kind of anti-Zeno-effect is said to occur which means that the 'decayed' - state must quickly be the more likely one.

@matiasvillarreal6207 5 жыл бұрын

I'm learning slowly about this topic and is awesome. Thanks!

@viankhan7969 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks sir for clearing my concept on this theory now I can read further about other paradox

@KurumiZph 5 жыл бұрын

Next video: how to turn your tv remote into interdimensional passage

@aaroncurtis8545 4 жыл бұрын

That was well presented; as are all your videos. But I came to say; Wow! Someone that really knows physics actually explained Why consciousness gets brought up in this context. That's much appreciated by me anyways.

@sateeshkumar4952 Жыл бұрын

Schrödinger's cat: Hey I'm alive...now let's test yours...

@RationalSaneThinker 11 ай бұрын

0:50 My only complaint of this fantastic video is that he uses a "steel cage." The cage wouldn't work because you can see what's inside. For the experiment to work, you can't see what's inside. Also a cage would allow the gas to escape, not necessarily killing the cat even if the particle decayed.

@IStMl 5 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one that didn’t get it ?

@fabiuskleemann2184 5 жыл бұрын

It´s like your hair you dont know in wich position it is until you check on it in a mirror. so it can be to the left or to the right, but you wont know what it is until you check it either with your hand or as said, a mirror. (sorry for my english)

@mamupelu565 5 жыл бұрын

I guess no one gets it

@Marko_Djuricic 5 жыл бұрын

Someone wrote a really good example: When you drop your phone, it's in a state of superposition (broken and not broken at the same time) from your point of view, until you measure it (pick it up and see the result).

@bizarrebread1512 5 жыл бұрын

I got it

@DaP84 5 жыл бұрын

It's about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device.Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/esyAmNOjtp3Td5c.html

@jxyndz6303 5 жыл бұрын

Who remembers when action lab was hydraulic press action?

@electriccheese5373 5 жыл бұрын

Dude, it is weird, because O remember a few months ago when you only had 200,00 subscribers or so, I just realized how fast this channel has grown

@saladladds8203 5 жыл бұрын

I love how at the beginning it goes through the whole process of "the material decays and knocks over the acid and then kills the cat" like is this rube goldberg or something?

@Noah_7s 5 жыл бұрын

I watched this video with a fly in my room

@markmartin3152 4 жыл бұрын

Did you hear this fly or actually see it?

@wermthewerm 5 жыл бұрын

I summon you action lab! The Action Lab The Action Lab The Action Lab

@TheActionLab 5 жыл бұрын

Rrrwaaar!

@wermthewerm 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheActionLab Mission accomplished! Also hi Action Lab

@shivamgagad5674 5 жыл бұрын

666.7 • 3.14

@toosas 5 жыл бұрын

a human is not required to collapse the wave function. We do not have a method to detect a particle's state without interacting with it (a device being able to detect it is needed). Measuring collapses the wave function by interacting with the particle

@ChromashmellowCelestial 4 жыл бұрын

I think there are 3 possibilities here actually. You have -The flies are dead, as the observer is an human -The flies are alive, as the observer is an human -Being the flies self-aware, they are the observer so they "choose" what state they are in, yet for you(the human) they are both dead and alive.So it'd depend in the observer, and for an external observer you'd have 4 states here. And when you came to the room, the superposition ended

@RalphDratman 5 жыл бұрын

The superposition was only resolved when I watched this video, obviously. Until then the flies and the geiger counter and you and the video data bits were all in a superposition of dead vs alive flies. And of course each of us viewers resolved the superposition independently, so some of us saw you announce that the flies were alive while the others saw you say the flies were dead. In my reality your flies were alive. I hope you count the occurrences of viewers reporting dead or alive flies so we can finally get the results of this experiment.

@sophiaschier-hanson4163 2 жыл бұрын

This sounds suspiciously like the Wigner's Friend thought experiment. Whoa, dude!

@sayanghosh8352 Жыл бұрын

Dead

@RalphDratman Жыл бұрын

@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 I may or may not be Wigner's anonymous friend. He (or she) was not named -- for privacy, of course.

@TheExtraleague 5 жыл бұрын

"The entire universe that didn't actually exist in real state until conscientious being be able to absorb it" ... yea we call it "rendering texture" or "spawning" in our created IT universe :D

@peksn 3 жыл бұрын

@Hooda the Antagonist wdym it obviously does

@peksn 3 жыл бұрын

@Hooda the Antagonist damn didn't even see that lol

@njcwolf4654 5 жыл бұрын

You know, your titles are always kinda clickbaity, but your videos never fail to entertain me. So it's like, I can't even be mad.

@victherocker 5 жыл бұрын

"Shut up and calculate" should be a motto for anyone who tend to overthink problems like me

@FarazAli-sq7hr 5 жыл бұрын

Make video on Young's double slit experiment

@jacopocarboncini5712 5 жыл бұрын

Man, your eyes are so close that they are becoming a singularity

@rollingrocky3608 5 жыл бұрын

#Roasted

@GMR.24 5 жыл бұрын

I'm truly stumped. Because you explained it so well in the superposition video. There it was very black and white (black or white?) and made sense. But then carry the same method over here to a cat or a fly in a box, and then things get all crazy in my brain. When I try to relate the two, I can, but then I can't! It's very confusing!

@BallistikaGames 5 жыл бұрын

This video really struck my fancy. I love his explanation in this video

@Meiabell 5 жыл бұрын

So suspended state until observed. AND Quantum Physics also says that observation alters what is being observed. What does it mean?

@PerfectDarkcontrol 5 жыл бұрын

That is another problem, when working in a scale of nanometers and below. Imagine u want to measure the speed of a particle. How to measure it if even light would influence it? As soon as u measure it u alter the measurement. At example, u want to measure the speed of wind with a rotor. The wind is moving with a definite tempo, but as soon as it hits upon the rotor, it will lose it's speed, so u did't got the actual speed. Although this influence is minimal and can be ignored in the measurement of the wind, in the world of nanometers this influence makes a great impact on the results. I hope that was understandable, english is not my native language.

@japneelsingh2 5 жыл бұрын

@@PerfectDarkcontrol so measurements are not the true nature that we seek but the altered nature due to our curiosity and interference. What will we call this measurement then?

@SC-zq6cu 5 жыл бұрын

@@japneelsingh2 Nearest answer

@japneelsingh2 5 жыл бұрын

@@SC-zq6cu that is appropriate lol but what is the real answer called then

@SC-zq6cu 5 жыл бұрын

@@japneelsingh2 Real answer

@phizicks 5 жыл бұрын

I think everything is measuring it. even empty space with quantum fluctuations affects the measurement

@eljamos7629 5 жыл бұрын

Just subbed! way to go mate!

@billhart3814 5 жыл бұрын

Measurement in this context does not mean measurement with a device of by an observer. It means interaction. Once a particle (e.g. a photon or an atom) interacts with the particle in superposition, a measurement is made. You'd have to keep the entire system isolated (just putting it in a box is not sufficient) to prevent measurement. This is why quantum computers are so hard to produce. You have to keep the qubits totally isolated. But this is really hard to do, and so they suffer from noise (interactions) that cause the quantum state to collapse.

@Gary_Gamer 5 жыл бұрын

Teen Titans go explained this to me so I feel prepared

@prankshow5255 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@fjeezy1305 3 жыл бұрын

Years ago after thinking about this for a while, the thought occurred to me... Maybe much like a computer program, existence also has every possibility written into its “code”, but the user only uses (or experiences) the parts of the program that are executed while they are running it. Like when i wake up, im in a superposition of staying in bed or getting up. Since both actions are possible, both are real, or written into the “code” of the universe. Both happened/are happening/will happen. If that makes sense lol. Just the thoughts of a random layperson 😂

@djhuntsman7504 5 жыл бұрын

Love your channel it's helping me to educate my fiance as she isn't the most book smart and I find it hard to describe we both enjoy most of your vids, that being said this one leaves me with a question

@djhuntsman7504 5 жыл бұрын

If I don't measure radiation and prove its harmful does that mean it's in a superposition or am I understanding the superposition thing wrong?

@darciek7175 3 жыл бұрын

TAL: "could it be an animal, could it be a fly!" Fly: "I'm not an animal?" 9:07.

@FarazAli-sq7hr 5 жыл бұрын

Quantum mechanics is more confusing, mysterious and interesting

@unrealpigzgaming8014 4 жыл бұрын

@Adventist ok

@speed2574 5 жыл бұрын

I have a suggestion.... Take 2 polarizers and place them crosswise on a sheet of glass so that no photons could emit.... Then shine that 32000 lumen flash light or 5w laser drom the pther side yo see if the polarizers gets glow.... This is gonna Be cool. Try it pleaseeee!!!!!.....☺😊

@saqibmudabbar 5 жыл бұрын

It’s kinda like how the world around you doesn’t exist, unless you look at it, like when you’re not looking that way in video games or the simulation we’re living in.

@Magicwillnz 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for not immediately dismissing the consciousness hypothesis.

@aaroncurtis8545 4 жыл бұрын

Ikr... Getting someone to talk about Why is pretty rare lately.

@mrflippy3578 5 жыл бұрын

You feel like a genius when you actually understand these things.

@loess4616 5 жыл бұрын

coat the inside of a bottle with never wet and fill it up

@loess4616 5 жыл бұрын

like so he can see

@kevinmitsui3002 5 жыл бұрын

Me at the shop - I want a geiger counter. The shop guy - may I know why do you want that. Me - well, i'll put a little fruitfly in a superposition where it is both alive and dead. Shop guy- goddamn you son of a elon musk

@RealPatrical 5 жыл бұрын

The preasure measuring device was left on your vacum there for it was also measured with that and couldnt you have just looked at it to see a difference in pressure when you came back

@jacopo.mazzei 5 жыл бұрын

You made lots of videos about blackest black but what about whitest White?

@motnosniv 5 жыл бұрын

It's raciss if you're not brown.

@jacopo.mazzei 5 жыл бұрын

@@motnosniv yeah probably😂

@arpitkumar4525 5 жыл бұрын

Snow White

@jimstanton4535 4 жыл бұрын

WOW!!! .... Schrodinger became famous for Publicly Tormenting his flea bitten cat. Nobody even reported him to the Humane Society for this act of cruelty. How sad!!!

@clex2349 5 жыл бұрын

Superposition isn’t some revolutionary theory, it’s just a bunch of smart people who won’t admit that they simply don’t know the answer.

@thrdel 5 жыл бұрын

About that *consciousness* collapsing the wave thing , I came across with a video a while ago , quite interesting double slit experiment that went something like this : 1. They did the experiment with detectors on but not recording => when the X-ray film was developed the result was interference pattern 2. They did the experiment with detectors recording => when the X-ray film was developed the result was two lines pattern 3. They did the experiment with detectors recording but before the result of the X-ray film was revealed, they deleted the detectors recording => always interference. I believe that the interpretation of the result is that the simple fact that the information recorded from the detectors *was available* , regardless if it was actually viewed or not , resulted in the two lines pattern. In other words, a necessary condition for superposition seems to be that the information weather there was a decay signal or not must not be available. If the information is available, the result is always dead *or* alive as opposed to dead *and* alive .

@spiderunderyourbed6893 2 жыл бұрын

Can you share me the video? Sounds interesting

@ahmed38247 5 жыл бұрын

It wasnt dead and alive.. Check this.. lets say u put the fly in a box and measure the amount of oxygen and then u do tge experiment for 1 hour then come back and find out the fly is dead when u measure it and before that it was dead and alive at the same time then the amount of oxygen would have been almost gone completely (bcoz it was dead and alive for 1h breathing) but what u found out is the oxygen is the same amount (bcoz it was ONLY dead when u left it and it wasnt alive to breath in oxygen) I have a serious question.. when u say an intelligent being have to measure the expirment (like the example of the universe) could that be god?

@toasterforsale5069 5 жыл бұрын

1000 vids no subscribers A better example is dropping your phone, when it’s midair from your POV it’s in a state of superpositiom, you don’t know if it’s broken until you pick it up

@DaP84 5 жыл бұрын

No, this is about the fundamental particles, the smallest "building blocks"of atoms/matter. They belong in the quantum category. Scientists who's studied quantum mechanics since the last century know that ordinary physics rules doesn't apply to these particles at all. And they appear like they only exist as particle form, from the moment being observed or measured. Before this they seem to exist just as states of probabillity, kinda like a mathematic formula. It's very weird and similar to computer games/simulations. Like the particles only render in this world when needed. And this famous experiment used radioactive materia as a "trigger"/decision maker for activating a death trap. Radioactive materia decay over time = quantum particles being released. And before observed or measured, both scenarious are true, the radioactive materia will have decayed and triggered the death of the flies and simultaneously wont have decayed and left the flies still alive. But I think his setup of this experiment was fail bc transparent box and the measuring device.Watch this awesome vid about the world famous "Double Slit Experiment" to understand the basics of the very mysterious nature of quantum particles: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/esyAmNOjtp3Td5c.html

@ahmed38247 5 жыл бұрын

@@DaP84 then its probably always being measured bcoz the fly's state of being dead or alive affects the future and thats why we can tell what happened in the past was REAL and it did happen by the modern state of an object.. unless both circumstances were actually running at the same time and one of them disappears once they're measured.. so according to that, can we say that the universe was created in a REAL state once we discovered that? And before that it was in a superposition state?

@HidekiShinichi 5 жыл бұрын

1000 vids no subscribers it would be god so different from any idea of god we have here eight now that you probably would not call it god

@zorro-ki7zr 5 жыл бұрын

Its funny how americans pronounce german names :D

@starlalaies7669 5 жыл бұрын

Lul yes

@yoihenmais7013 5 жыл бұрын

Great points sir... 👌 It would be great if there are some mathematical equations to explain ,so that the equations and the stories goes hand in hand with our understanding

@motnosniv 5 жыл бұрын

What do you call a fly with no wings? A walk. Bwaha haha!

@davidprodigy5833 5 жыл бұрын

Plants vs Zombies

@martiddy 5 жыл бұрын

Schrödinger VS Zombies

@frizy_2023 5 жыл бұрын

Schrödinger vs Pläňťś

@danielrynne9300 5 жыл бұрын

Not zombies vs zombies

@Lonewolf- 5 жыл бұрын

Hit like those who didn't understand but watched the full video 😂

@neutronenstern. 3 жыл бұрын

Def Mesurement: If a transmission Particle of the thing that has to be mesuered hits anything and thus creates some kind of reaction (eg. Photon hits fly, gets reflected and then hits wall and gets absorbed=> heat=> mesurement (wall is measuring it).

@KotyoK1 5 жыл бұрын

You know, my relationship with your last video remind me of Schrödinger's Cat also. I saw that video, but might as well say I didn't see that video, because I didn't get shit from it lol