My cat's quantum meddling made me doubt the whole Copenhagen interpretation...

I was trying to show my cat how double-slit experiments work with a laser pointer and some cardboard, but he just batted the slits away... Now I'm convinced that wave-particle duality is just a fancy term for things being unpredictable when you have a pet around... Could it be that we overcomplicate physics to avoid admitting that reality is just inherently messy?

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skyler431d ago

Totally agree with "chaos is the default state"! Physics feels like us desperately organizing a closet that just explodes again. Like, remember when they found out Uranus orbits sideways probably from a giant collision? That's cosmic messiness right there! Or in everyday life, my wifi always drops during important calls, as if the universe hates order. We build grand theories, but then a cat bats a slit or a cloud ruins telescope data. It's all just beautiful, complicated clutter!

sarah_perry1d ago

A cat messed with the double-slit? Chaos truly reigns supreme.

val3151d ago

Your cat batting away the slits is such a perfect metaphor for how life intervenes in our neat experiments. The part about reality being inherently messy really hits home, because I've had similar moments where my pets just bulldoze through my careful plans. I mean, maybe we do overcomplicate things to avoid admitting that chaos is the default state. Idk, it's like physics is us trying to impose order on a universe that's just doing its own thing, pets included.

the_emma1d ago

Actually, I used to be all about the neat explanations in physics, but your cat story just flipped that for me. Seeing how something as simple as a pet can disrupt an experiment makes the whole 'inherent messiness' idea way more relatable. Now I'm wondering if we're just trying to tidy up a universe that prefers to be chaotic...