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by freetonik 76 days ago
The meme refers to the notion where an observation (i.e. interaction) collapses the wave function to a single value. As in, prior to observation, a system in a quantum superposition is said to be "in multiple states at the same time", and after the obsevation only one state exists, while all other possibilities are gone (or exist in other worlds, according to one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics [0]).

So, in that meme, the guy looks at one girl (the observed state) and "ignores" all other girls (all other possible states).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

1 comments

I'm about 20 minutes into:

>>https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/05/13/275-...

Which was recommended from the top_commenter's link to his own professional QPU programming presentation. I remain interested in learning more about this pure magic.

Ya'lls words both seem to represent worlds which I doubt even more words could help me into ever understanding(s).

I definitely understand being "in multiple states at the same time" — — —