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Why is that Yin Yang symbol appears?
by akasakahakada 3y ago
Why is that Yin Yang symbol appears?
- Ygg2 3y agoHonestly, I think it's for funsies. Kinda like picking a fuuny acronym.
- mistermann 3y agoIt increasingly often feels to me like the creator/programmer/whatever of this simulation (or whatever it is) is feeding us novel prompts to see how we will react. :)
- Ygg2 3y agoThat's a completely mental way of interperting this post and this world. I meant the physicist are doing it for funsies not the Lord almighty. At face value your chain of logic isn't coherent, how can creator be sure he isn't just a creation? And you get to absurdities it's creators all the way down.
- mistermann 3y agoWhen you say "you", are you speaking literally or colloquially? If literally, you have some science to contend with! :)
- stronglikedan 3y agoIt's a visualization of the wave function, not an image of entangled photons, so it's meant to convey what the images represent in a form that's human "readable". (Think data visualizations)
- akomtu 3y agoIf quantum particles are the probability function, then the image shows the photons themselves.
- jinwoo68 3y agoIt feels so natural because yin and yang are not two separate things but two sides of the same thing, just like two entangled particles are.
- cwmoore 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Physics
- eigenket 3y agoIts worth emphasising that entanglement is not a two-party / duality specific thing. You can entangle 2 particles, you can entangle 3 particles, you can entangle n particles (although actually doing so becomes a quite hard engineering problem as n grows), you can even entangle different properties of the same particle with each other so the spin and position of an electron can become entangled. Human brains love dual/pairwise properties for some reason, but they don't seem to actually come up in physics very often.