Quantum Mechanics: Expectation Vs. Reality

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Quantum Mechanics: Expectation Vs. Reality

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The perfect quantum mechanics meme doesn't exi— collapses into a superposition of laughter

Schrödinger's famous thought experiment: expectation vs reality in its purest form. On the left, the popular explanation where the cat is simultaneously "ALIVE" and "DEAD" (or should I say "ALIEADVE" with those strategically superimposed letters). On the right, the actual mathematical nightmare that physicists deal with daily.

This is quantum mechanics in a nutshell - the public thinks it's about quirky half-dead cats, while physicists are drowning in partial differential equations that make calculus look like kindergarten arithmetic.

Next time someone at a party says "I totally get quantum physics," just show them the right side of this image and watch their confidence function rapidly approach zero.

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