The Observer Effect Is Not What You Think ⚡️

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   @nerderspree

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   I think the term "observer" sort of muddied the waters. It suggested that it was conscious observation that collapsed the wave function. The "Information exchange effect" might have been less misleading. But, yeah, I've definitely surprised a few people in my day by explaining that the observer effect can happen even if nobody ever observes it.

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   @matchavez8530

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   I would take the pill of course and when I no longer looked at waking up as a good thing, I would stop

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   @davelm42

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   I would take the pill. I suspect 500 years is about when I'd start wondering what's next.

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   @corylee2966

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   Anytime you observe a system, you absorb light from that system, therefore altering it. The real kicker is in the understanding of how the system knows light was absorbed from it.

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   @andyball7270

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   I can live my days youthful? No thanks. I didn't want to live when I was youthful and that affliction hasn't changed. I look forward to aging!

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   @vikramguptavlog06

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   immortal pill will help in studying the universe i will not run out of content

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   @egarciaeg420

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   If they are observed after crossing through the slit and the interaction of observation caused a collapse, wouldn't the interference pattern still be visible? For instance, if the particles were observed directly before contact with the screen, there would still have been ample opportunity for the wave function to interact, so why do we only see two lines?

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   @djdrack4681

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   Read (or watch videos) about the more advanced Experiment:
   Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser
   IF you thought this interesting; that will blow your mind (spoiler: we haven't found explanation for results)

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   @q3xodus

   August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

   Lol been a pale ginger all my life and can confirm that is sucks terribly.

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    @rebeuhsin6410

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    You cannot detect a photo without completely destroying it. You never get two lines. You get (over time) a two slit interference pattern or a one slit interference pattern. Very small things always behave as waves to some extent, even after a collapse.

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    @robmccarty755

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Yes, I would take the pill.

    No, I would never stop. New experiences and ideas are being created faster than I can experience them, and humanity is only growing and advancing – if anything, that is going to become a bigger problem. So short answer, I'd stop taking the pill and allow myself to age when I thought there was nothing left to experience, but that would never happen so long as a civilization complex enough to create this medicine still exists.

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    @kathylieberman8661

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    I would take that anti aging pill immediately. But I may find that though I'm young again, my brain still has a capacity limit.

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    @Summonergeek

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    In my mind I don't want to take the pill. In my heart I wold never stop wanting to play the next cool video game and take two a day.

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    @F1V351CK5

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    If extrapolating homeostatically, best guess 2000 years.

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    @Rémy-e6i3u

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Joe if you're naturally too pale and you hate it, there is a solution called melanotan, this peptide will make your skin produce much more melanine and it will also darken your beard, in injection it works way better than the nasal spray

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    @carternotsteve2242

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    The world is very uniquely interested in *information*. The speed of light in a vacuum is not literally a speed limit for *objects*, but a speed limit for _information_. The observer effect requires _measurement_, not "observation" because "observation" implies an observer. You can think of it more like polling on a network. Your network speed is how fast it can transmit information (bits). You know already that there are things on the network (in space), just due to LAN (viewing the effects of the particle, not the particle itself. Just because your router can already see when it receives a request, therefore, not the device, but the effects of it.) Now, like NMAP (network mapping tool), you don't know where the other things are on the network, you just know that they are somewhere, and you can see what they're doing. The "observation" comes when you poll the devices on the network, and, in essence, it's the computer (detector) going:
    "Is there something at 192.168.1.1? okay, how about 2? 3? 4?" so on so forth.
    But now imagine that these can only do one thing at once (that's why networking cards have _ports_!), so to respond to the request of asking it "Are you there?" it goes "yep!" but now it's not sending requests through the router. Now, in that instant, you know where it is on the network, but you can't know what it's doing. You can "measure" it's position, but not it's velocity/potential/energy. This is how we get the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. It's not a lack of technology that prevents us knowing both, it's just a property of the particle itself (which is harder to explain analogously if you start into QFT). The network card you're checking for can't be changed, that's just how it is. It's not that we can't find out both energy and position; It's merely that *it can't tell you*.

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    @lodgin

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Yes, I'd absolutely take that pill. I don't like taking weeks to heal from something that'd only take a week tops in my teens. I don't like aching joints or this metabolism. I don't particularly care about youthful looks, just let me regain a youthful body.

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    @d.g.1986

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    "The mysticism " around the double slit experiment!? Dude… I literally means reality is undetermined until WE interact with it!? Its science bro

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    @Katastrope

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    12:48 I am 47, and I have experienced enough in life, both good and bad, to realize I do not want to live forever. And an eternal afterlife of any sort sounds like torture. I am perfectly fine with ceasing to exist.

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    @motoadventuretourer

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    If you were taking a widely available pill to stay young/live forever, if you decide to stop taking the pill, is that equivalent to committing suicide?

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    @Lowlight91

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    There literally a lineup of pills (vitamins!) on my table that I take to keep me healthy and young-ish and they’re expensive, so if there’s a free version that actually works, yes I’m absolutely in. To your second question, do my friends and loved ones also have access to the pill? Will I have to watch them die? Will I have to work a job like I do now? I wanna retire in 15 years; if that number became indefinite…. No thanks.

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    @shrunet

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Historically humans would care for their bodies as best as they could, yet live to age 40.
    Probably at age 35 they would have an impression on how things would end.

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    @jessd3012

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    "How long would you take the pill before you got tired?"
    My guy, I wouldn't take the pill. I'm already tired. Hahaha
    I'm not in danger! Don't worry! But I have absolutely no desire to keep living beyond my years. I think that's something that people who are both wealthy and healthy want to do. I am neither.
    Now, would I choose to be healthier? Yes. I have a degenerative disease that's slowly fusing my spine together and hurts real bad, thus why I'm also broke. I'd love nothing more than to get better ad go back to school. I really wonder if I'd want the life pill then.

    Also, I wasn't aware that this misconception about thee observer effect existed, which is interesting. (No judgement, I was just taught differently. It happens.) There's definitely a joke to be made there, but I haven't had my coffee yet, so I'm not the one to make it. Hahahaha

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    @jenrosejenrose7417

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    In my current state of health? No, no I would not. If the pill could also fix the ME/CFS, factor V and the six autoimmune diseases I have? In a flippin' heartbeat. Gimme. But the idea of living even another 40 years like this? Is exhausting.

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    @Nugatron50000

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    u mean photonic-interferce?

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    @JY-dh7mk

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    I appreciate your transparency about your transparency. I kinda understand the struggle, my wive is a day walker like you, she gets burnt driving on a sunny day.

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    @anonymousanonymous5343

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    bruh use sun screen

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    @sdvanon1285

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    I would take a pill to reverse aging, not to look young again but to reverse the loss of mobility and debilitating pain issues that come with aging (after a certain age). Definitely would not want to be in my 20s again!

    Live forever? The idea is appealing because there are so many places to visit, books to read, skills to learn, languages to learn, wisdom to explore … and curiosity about how homo sapiens evolve or slide backwards. Of course, that would require the resources to experience every aspect of humanity, past, present and future! Curiosity for curiosity's sake! And my life has taught me that wisdom is something you aquire in life through making mistakes, messing up, getting caught up in false beliefs, investing in toxic relationships … but soon you are old and filled with pain and treated like an unwanted idiot by others and you hang around finding pleasure in small things and nurture curiosity and wait to die!

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    @bobs6536

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Nice haircut Joe

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    @matthewm28123

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    For your questions:
    1. No, because of Question 2.
    2. Only long enough to do things I am able to (due to circumstances). I don't want to be here very long (hundreds of years), since I would both get bored and probably just be done with everything (mentally, emotionally).

    If the pill was short-term (decade or two of working), sure–I'd want to be healthy until I just basically drop dead. The aging process isn't fun.

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    @Goyahkla1910

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Yes I’d prefer g64 from this point onward 12:27

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    @jameshageman6244

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Anti-aging pill? That’s a hell to the double yes!

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    @jdeedoo

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Already tried man and it's been a while

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    @arnelilleseter4755

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Yes, I would absolutely take a longevity pill. I experience and learn new things all the time (just watching this video I learned new things). So long as I can do that I would want to stick around.
    I have often wondered about the question of how long I would want to live. We know that people can live well over 100 and still be happy with their life, so I don't think a few hundred years is a stretch. What the limit is would probably be different from person to person. I just hope I live long enough to find out.

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    @killerplank1

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Do yourself a favor and grab some Japanese sunblock sometime. My wife keeps us stocked with the Biore aqua gel strand it’s great. So light going on and very effective

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    @phillipnoetzel7637

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Both Feinman’s and Heisenberg’s qoutes here (7:08) about quantum physics are almost exactly like what Christian Gnostics say about God. I am neither Christian nor a scientist; however I find this extremely intriguing.

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    @davep5698

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    The Question:
    So I would be interested in trying it if it were a thing. I have zero interest in the future of my body, I know where that leads, it's knee and hip replacements for sure, along with so much more likely.
    But I also have zero interest in living forever.
    Where I heard it was Tupac, and it was something along the lines of, we only have from our late Teens to 30s before we lose the fight in us and we settle into whatever life style we are in, I do believe that and I would be interested in if there was such a thing to take you biological age back there if you would be more active and want the change in the world again. All theoretical but it could lead to a big change in the world.
    But if I lived at that sort of age forever I would also likely do the dangerous jobs and be a lot more risky in my life as I can just keep doing those things for as long as is needed, there is not a window to miss, there are many things I discard as options because I will be too old by whatever time they come round for me as a possibility, but if I was 25 forever I would do the stupid jobs that need younger people knowing I can keep doing them, there is not a clock on my job, and also knowing one of those jobs will likely be risky enough to keep my life at around the same length as a normal aging person. 25 forever but still only last till about 80 be cause the job would be dangerous and I'd still be doing it.

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    @orlocklust

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    I would take it indefinitely or Till I got tired of living, which is hard to imagine but all good things must come to an end, right?!!? 🤔

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    @jagadishgospat2548

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    It's not that the measurement interferes with the particle and decoheres it. It is the availability of the information of which slit it went through. Look up the quantum eraser experiment. Where they do measure it but leave it in a state where it is still cohered so the interference pattern is still observed. And they destroy the information without reading it. Still has nothing to do with conscious observation just information availability and decoherence of the wave function information.

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    @LandonLaCross

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    The Observer Effect is the Bluecoats 2025 program and its cool

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    @TRazielT

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    1. Yes
    2. I think it's hard to even comprehend, being able to decide when to stop living forever and just live the rest of my days. I don't know for how long, but I'm pretty certain I would at some point just stop taking the pill.

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    @DavidPysnik

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    12:00 Peanut gallery here. To answer the first question, yes, I’d so take that pill. To answer the second question: indefinitely. Having lived only decades, I can’t speak to how I would feel after thousands or millions of years, but for now, I like being alive and could see that being the case for a very, very long time, especially if I get to regenerate and stay in a youthful adult state.

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    @rwm1980

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    All u do now is lightning round, u a bum

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    @nickelsontrail

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Let's Go Bloo

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    @fullthrottlewrx

    August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am

    immortality is a CURSE!!!!!!

    TRUST ME!!!!!

    the dinosaur park Joels know this……

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