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Silicon Valley
Schrodinger's Cat
02:53 - 03:42
Gilfoyle explains to Jared that if he checks up on the Eagle eggs at the museum he might kill them because they are in a state of being alive and not alive as long as he doesn't know the outcome.
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Video Transcript
2:54
you should call the Museum's if this is normal
2:56
Jared do you want that egg to be alive right
2:58
of course
2:59
well right now because you don't know whether it is or not it exists in both States
3:03
like Schrodinger's cat
3:05
like mine
3:06
it's a quantum mechanics thought experiment that an Austrian physicist came up with to help understand Quantum States
3:12
so he imagine putting a cat into a box with poisoned food
3:16
as a 50/50 chance the cat eats it if you open the box and confirm that the cat is dead
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then in a sense
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if
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you've killed the cat
3:24
or if you call the museum and get the information
3:27
then you've killed the egg
3:30
no
3:31
that's silly
3:32
is it
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okay
3:36
I'm just gonna think about it for a minute
3:39
yeah
3:40
you should have never called that
