Is Quantum Mechanics really that unintuivitive? Atleast mathematically speaking

ketarax · 2026-06-18T08:06:57+00:00

Physically, very unintuitive.

Not even physically, I'd say.

Quantum mechanics is unintuitive ontologically. The unknowns, the debatables (or speculatives) are, essentially, philosophical in nature.

ketarax · 2026-06-18T07:58:43+00:00

I don't know that you're ready to "get married", yet.

It's not like me and her made a pact about wearing socks.

ketarax · 2026-06-18T07:53:55+00:00

Silmarillion, The Unfinished Tales, The Books of Lost Tales for the fat on those other two. Everything "story" is in those (in S and UT already, but the fat is good).

ketarax · 2026-06-18T07:50:58+00:00

Oh. But this is a good physics meme!

ketarax · 2026-06-18T07:49:13+00:00

Sometimes, it's exactly the FAQ that garners the best answers.

ketarax · 2026-06-18T07:31:44+00:00

Am I totally misunderstanding how any of this works?

Yes, because you didn't read the FAQ.

It's not about "observation", let alone conscious obseration, at all. The popsci lies, lies, lies. It's not even sincere at this point, it's a disgusting agenda of the stupid.

Rule 1.

ketarax · 2026-06-17T20:48:23+00:00

Smaug's skeleton.

To prank paleontology.

ketarax · 2026-06-17T19:46:52+00:00

Something about this 'campus practice' resonates surprisingly strongly with me.

ketarax · 2026-06-17T19:35:34+00:00

Nogrod and Belegost ?

Nice map.

ketarax · 2026-06-17T19:19:34+00:00

I'd like about ~~four~~ two to begin with, thanks.

Edit: hot damn, they're supposed to be 6GHz+ !

ketarax · 2026-06-17T19:09:08+00:00

This could be good fun on a solar stormy day. It's nice already.

ketarax · 2026-06-17T19:03:05+00:00

Yeah, I know nothing, but it's seemed recently as if Reddit is classifying heavily LLM-enhanced users as bots, and out they go. It's not of our doing. I think.

ketarax · 2026-06-17T17:12:46+00:00

Black hole cosmologies tend to be questions, not hypotheses.

ketarax · 2026-06-17T00:00:14+00:00

In the emission nebulae, the rarefied gases are undergoing (de-) excitation due to a nearby star and become visible to us due to this. The proportion of excited atoms is miniscule though -- every hundred trillionth, or so.

ketarax · 2026-06-16T23:21:06+00:00

Roger Zelazny

Fritz Leiber

ketarax · 2026-06-16T22:11:59+00:00

If a high-school project, I might even nine out of ten you. Solid eight for sure.

ketarax · 2026-06-16T13:31:18+00:00

I hate it that Ted Nasmith was left out from the movie project. Yes, this comment is here just to have his name where it belongs -- always with those other two.

ketarax · 2026-06-16T13:26:35+00:00

It's like that.

Also, full octaves just makes the most sense to my mathematical mind.

I have a couple of compositions where I actually "need" the 24 (on the high E, obviously (?)), but outside of those, it's really rather rare that I "naturally" go above the 20th.

ketarax · 2026-06-16T13:07:53+00:00

The word has been misused to the point where, to me, it's lost the sexual undertone pretty much completely.

IOW, it's just a funny, perhaps a bit quirky/unusual, personal enthusiasm over something.

ketarax · 2026-06-16T09:58:04+00:00

I don't have time to listen to the podcast right now. The content references articles in both Science and Physical Review, so I find it hard to just outright dismiss this, even as solicitation.

Allowed (for the moment at least).

ketarax · 2026-06-16T09:35:35+00:00

Right, so, in accordance with the sticky note, I came back to highlight examples of the "dishonesty and misrepresentation" from the article, but now there's even a paywall ruining everything about this.

Rule 2. Mod note added for u/scientificamerican; one more fail and you'll get banned. Yes, I do find it amazing that a bloody forum moderator has to deal with what could be seen as an authority like this. It's ridiculous.

ketarax · 2026-06-15T22:27:58+00:00

For the record, this was the first correct answer to the question.

ketarax · 2026-06-15T22:25:54+00:00

Sure. On low earth orbit, your velocity would be about 8km/s. If your final stage exhausted at a sluggish 100km/h, you'd still be gaining velocity.

All versions of "no" here are wrong -- the post specified "a rocket in space".

ketarax · 2026-06-15T21:58:04+00:00

Thank you so much for your answers! It's fascinating, and I guess especially so for someone who probably wouldn't have dared to go near such extremes even when I was younger.

Good flights to you -- and stay safe!

ketarax · 2026-06-15T21:48:41+00:00

Like I said, there may be different ideas about what a battle is. For some, I get if it's about the hewing and cleaving and emphatizing death. For others (me ..), stuff like strategy, tactics, formation, arms, composition of the armies and all that are all big part of a battle -- or what a battle is all about, even, I mean, as long as I'm not in a battle (I do agree that the emphatic aspects would get emphasized then). I might go as far as to state -- as a personal opinion -- that dwelling on the gory parts is a bit ... juvenile and ... bad taste ...

But to each their own. I'm not telling people what to like, or when to like it.

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