Adam Becker

Like, is it when I make a measurement?

Does quantum mechanics only apply to me, Adam Becker?

Like, that can't be right, right?

Does it work when a dog...

looks at an electron yeah right or or or you know do you need to be like better qualified this is bananas it's completely nuts and and the other thing is like i said electrons aren't the only things that have wave functions this pen has a wave function you have a wave function i have a wave function the universe has a wave function you get a wave function you get a wave function you get a wave function quantum ontology it's like the oprah of the physics world

Was the wave function of the universe just waiting for billions and billions of years for someone to come along and suddenly collapse it and have the Schrodinger equation not apply?

It's just not clear when one equation applies and when another applies.

There are people who would say that I am wrong about that.

These are the same people who tell you to shut up and calculate.

If you ask them, if you pin them down and try to ask them, okay, fine, hot shot, when do you use one and when do you use the other?

They're going to give you something that's either internally contradictory or that contradicts the idea that quantum physics is more fundamental than Newton's physics.

Okay.

Of course I remember Snuffleupagus.

He's only there when people who aren't Big Bird aren't looking.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Big Bird is definitely not the prime observer of quantum mechanics.

I can tell you that right now.

Carol Spinney does not have, like, special quantum powers.

Yeah, it means that there's something we don't understand here.