No problem! I didn’t really understand it during my first watch either, but rewatching a bunch of times definitely helped. Hope you enjoy!

It’s not a plot hole because:

Similarly, something being deprecated & something being depreciated.

I’ve started saying “beyond the pale” and “copacetic” after playing Disco Elysium

No u!

That’s much worse - fewer excuses!

Huh, yeah

What would you classify this: fork, spoon or spork?

So they’re just randomly filming and publishing recordings of people? Gross.

No, we don’t yet know why space is expanding. But space has way way waaaaay lower pressure than the earth atmosphere since it’s almost empty. It even keeps sucking away bits of our atmosphere.

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On average, humans have less than 2 arms & legs

I mean, on average space is empty

I see what you’re trying to get at. It’s not that we can definitely know the state, it’s that we could build the experiment in such a way that we can definitely know the state - and by not building it this way we’re essentially deliberately “throwing away” information about the final state.

Thanks for the explanation!

Reminds me of: Pokemon or Big Data? https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

But that’s ignoring that there are multiple paths that can lead to state z, isn’t it?

I’ll try to design the simplest possible experiment: you have to radioactive atoms, each connected to a detector, and the detectors are connected to a counter. You leave the room and come back - the counter shows 2. How do you determine which atom decayed first?

Sorry, it’s been a long time since I last looked at the mathematical side of quantum mechanics, so most of your comment flew over my head. Let me put it in as simple terms as I can:

If there are multiple paths a system can take to reach a final state, how can you accurately determine which path was taken if you only know the initial & final state? IMO this shouldn’t be possible.

I always top my Twix

Hm, I’m not sure if I understand the abstract correctly.

Say I build two Schrödingers cat experiments next to each other, and connect them so that each vial dispersing the poison also makes the other vial disperse poison. I go away, and come back to both vials having triggered and both nuclear decays having occurred. How could I determine the path the whole system took?

Scientists believed this for the longest time, but I’ve recently seen a documentary explaining that, at the very bottom, there’s a giant koala bear. Apparently they’re still trying to determine why it’s smiling.