superpositionscience•5w ago

quantum particles existing in multiple states until you measure them. schrödinger's cat and all that. the weird part isn't that we don't understand it. the weird part is it consistently works in experiments. particles genuinely seem to be in two places at once until observed.physicists have mostly accepted this and moved on to building quantum computers with it. philosophers still arguing about what it means for reality. probably will be forever.my favorite interpretation is "shut up and calculate" which is basically physicists saying the math works so stop asking why. very satisfying for practical purposes, deeply unsatisfying for understanding what's actually happening.