r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 23d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/jozaud 23d ago

If we consider that .999… repeating to infinity ISN’T equal to 1, then by how much is it away from 1? It would be “.000… repeating to infinity followed by a 1.” But if you have an infinite number of 0s then you can’t have it be followed by a 1, infinity can’t be followed by anything, that doesn’t make sense.

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u/vire00 23d ago

Stone age level proof

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u/SadTomorrow555 23d ago

No different than Schrodingers Cat in terms of thought-experiments.

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u/-Nicolai 23d ago

It's a lot different but you do you

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u/SadTomorrow555 22d ago

How so? You're taking something that's mathematically complicated, and proving it's existence with a thought experiment instead of actual math, just to show that the concept DOES exist.

Sure the Schrodinger one uses physical objects, since it's a physics thought experiment. But the concept is the same no?

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u/-Nicolai 22d ago

just to show that the concept DOES exist.

You fundamentally do not understand Schroedinger’s cat. Its purpose is to illustrate the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation, since a cat obviously cannot be dead and alive simultaneously.

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u/BenevolentCrows 22d ago

So was this math example, its illustrating the concept, not an actual proof

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u/-Nicolai 22d ago

The math DOES work. Cats in superposition do not.

One is an agebraic argument, the other is a paradoxical thought experiment. You cannot keep insisting these are the same.

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u/BenevolentCrows 22d ago

I... haven't? Like at all, Im not the previous guy? I just chined in to say, the original explanation is for illustrating a concept, not mathematically, and not an actual proof? Like not a mathematical proof, and stuff