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Don't look now (lemmy.zip)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (13 children)

could a record like this be used as a presence detector? Like if there was any observer who collapsed the wave function then we’d get the collapsed lines in the log, otherwise it would have indicated no observers? (obviously even what the hell is an ‘observer’ anyway?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes. This is how motion detectors work. Normally, motion detectors have an IR emitter that acts as a particle, but when someone walks by, the IR emitter works as a wave, triggering the motion detector.

Notably, this doesn't work with dogs, as they have no souls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Notably, this doesn't work with dogs, as they have no souls.

Which kind of motion detectors? The ones I know work on everything that's moving, including my cats (don't have dogs) or even just throwing something past it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, you might have one of the newer ones that use interferometry to detect soulless entities.

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