[LibWhacker]

There it is. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't.

Some interesting comments at the source. I read them hoping they would help clear up some things for me, but they actually made it worse, lol. ymmv

[devane617]

Let me digest for a few.

[Deaf Smith]

QTT discovers statistical modeling.

[I want the USA back]

Some people think a cat shoved into a box can be both alive and dead at the same time. It is impossible for a logical person to have a conversation with those people.

I operate under the principle that a statement is either true or false, and that there is no middle ground between true and false. There is no basis for common understanding with people who reject that principle, and so it is impossible to talk with them about anything.

[Larry Lucido]

I was just saying that at a cocktail part last night.

Until everybody walked away.

[Moonman62]

QTT, however, can take back-action into account. The catch is that, to apply QTT, you need to have nearly complete knowledge about the behavior of the system you’re observing. Normally, an observation of a quantum system overlooks a lot of potentially available information: Some emitted photons get lost in their environment, say. But if pretty much everything is measured and known about the system — including the random consequences of the back-action — then you can build feedback into the measurement apparatus that will make continuous adjustments to compensate for the back-action. It’s equivalent to adjusting the telescope’s orientation to keep the planet in the center.

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They must keep track of effects that go backwards in time.

See Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_delayed-choice_experiment

[Track9]

It means if “you are one with the cat”, you’ll know if it’s dead or not.

[mjp]

observations + effects of measurement + feedback = accurate predictions of future path

[Ezekiel]

Minev and his co-workers were recently able to capture a “quantum leap” — a switch between two quantum energy states — as it unfolded over time.

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

They were also to achieve the remarkable feat of catching such a jump in midflight and reversing it.

Or the remarkable feat of catching a lady in mid-spin and reversing her:

A quantum measurement influences the system being observed: The act of observation injects a kind of random noise into the system. This is ultimately the source of Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle. The uncertainty in a measurement is not, as Heisenberg initially thought, an effect of clumsy intervention in a delicate quantum system — a photon striking a particle and pushing it off course, say. Rather, it’s an unavoidable outcome of the intrinsically randomizing effect of observation itself. The Schrödinger equation does just fine at predicting how a quantum system evolves — unless you measure it, in which case the result is unpredictable.

Without the indefinite article, there is no clear distintinction between "man" and "mankind", so you can trick your perception into observing small steps or quantum leaps. Out of many, one.

Acts 2:1 And when the day of the 50th was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

It "just so happens" that the Washington Monument is about to reopen with a new elevator system. Nothing random about that.

Living parables for the win!

[BikerTrash]

bumpmark

[AFreeBird]

L8r

[Bob Stone]

One day while out driving, Heisenberg was pulled over by a police officer for speeding.

The cop asked Heisenberg: “Do you know how fast you were going?”

Heisenberg replied: “No, but I know where I am.”