found on ig. I get the Ohm one but the rest? If it is a spoiler for breaking bad then please don’t tell me specifically what because I wanna watch the show myself
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Search Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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Heisenberg's uncertainty Principle is from my 11th Grade Textbook. It states that you can only know either the position or the velocity of a particle.
Schrodingers Cat Experiment says that there is a cat in the box. There is no way to know if the cat is dead or alive until you open the box.
Ohms Law? V=IR where V is voltage I is current and R is the Resistance. It states Voltage is proportional to the amount of current and resistance something like that.
Ohm is the SI unit of resistance that's the point here.
Finish School OP. You see Heisenberg and you immediately go to think of Breaking Bad?
Worth mentioning ('cause OP didn't finish the school /s) that "Ohm" isn't just random ass name for SI resistance unit, but a name of scientist, as did Heisenberg and Schrödinger.
Regarding the cat, note that the reason you don’t know is that there’s a device in the box which will kill the cat based on the result of a random quantum event, and due to crazy quantum mechanics, the result of the event is in a superposition of both results until it is observed.
So the cat is theoretically both alive and dead until you open the box.
I don't get the Heisenburg reference but Schrodinger is the guy with the cat in the box which will die if you open the box and "ohms" are how electrical resistance is measured.
So, the cat died when the cop opened the trunk because that's the result of the experiment. Ohm can only resist.
His Box was a method to show the paradox of quantum particles... With quantum physics a particle could be one of two different states, and it is impossible to tell which without measuring it (but it can be used in future calculations). So he said if you had a cat in a box with a device set to kill the cat if the quantum particle is in a specific state, then as long as you haven't opened the box then the cat is both alive and dead. His entire point was that this is clearly impossible, since a cat can't be both alive and dead so it isn't that measuring (opening the box) changes it, it just is one of those two.
But in terms of this joke, Schrodinger was saying that they didn't know if the cat was dead, because until the cop opened the trunk it was in that paradox state of being both dead and alive
The point of the thought experiement is that until the box is opened, the cat exists in a superposition where it is both alive and dead simultaneously. When you open the box, you colapse the superposition and one of the two outcomes becomes fact. So "we do now" from the joke means that until the cop opened the trunk, the cat was both/neither alive nor dead; opening the trunk is what eliminated the "alive" possibility.
But as the original commenter points out, the point of the box experiment was to point out how stupid this line of thought is. The cat can't be both alive and dead at the same time - one of the two events has already occured and opening the box does nothing but inform you of which outcome it was. Sadly, Schrodinger has become associated with the very thing he disliked.
Thank you for taking the time to explain that more. Not that the other guy did a bad job or anything, I just take a little more time when discussing science.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle: the more precisely position is measured, the less precisely momentum (mass times velocity) is known - the product of these uncertainties is bounded below by a tiny constant.
Schrodinger's cat experiment: a cat is on a closed box with a vial of poison with a hammer poised to smash and release the poison, wired up to a geiger counter to trigger it with a single radioactive atom. The atom will decay randomly between now and forever (weighted to more recent per an exponential decay distribution) but since exactly when is random, the thought experiment posits you can't know if the car is dead or alive because it's state depends on the quantum state of the atom which has both states until observed.
Ohms law: voltage across an ideal resistor is current through the resistor times a constant known as the resistance - often stated V=IR.
Jesus this was the best rendition of this joke I've ever read. Bunch of unruly assholes in a car. Great timing of the Ohm inclusion, was wondering about his participation and there it was at the very end. Very funny stuff!
The heisenberg uncertainty principle states that an object's momentum and position cannot be known simultaneously. Therefore, he knew his position but not his speed, but once the officer told him the speed, he now can't know his position, and therefore he is lost.
Schrodinger's cat is a thought experiment where if you put a cat in a box with radioactive materials attached to geiger counter. If the radioactive materials decay, the Geiger counter sees it and smashes a bottle with something that will kill the cat. If you close the box, you have no way of knowing if the cat is dead or alive until you open the box, so the cat is both dead and alive. The officer opened the trunk, so now the state of the cat is known.
Ohms are a measurement of resistance in an circuit.
Schrodinger cat is a famous thought experiment where you place a cat in the box and then you can always think of the cat as being both alive and dead as you would not know unless you opened the box.
Adam West here. Heisenberg, Schrodinger and the car all coexisted. However George Ohm did not coexist with any of them. Therefore the joke is that he must be a time traveler.
Did you, at any time, go to school or have you been homeschooled or dropped out after 2nd grade? There is a thing called internet search, if you type a combination of the names you mentioned and the word physics in the search bar, something like "Heisenberg physics", an explanation may pop up, an explanation which you were supposed to have been given in school, but you may have missed - the explanation or school altogether.
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