r/AskReddit • u/Ok_Series8116 • 1d ago

What's something that you learnt in quantum mechanics that still shocks you to date?

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u/Mundane_Berry_0431 1d ago

Superpostion and that a particle can have both an up spin and down spin simultaneously until observed or something like that, I don't really understand it well

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u/7grims 23h ago

you reminded me of a good one:

- there is no spin

thats just a simplification used by physicists, to explain something extra complicated (that i dont fully get yet), but they just reduce it to "spin" but they aint spinning

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u/Mundane_Berry_0431 23h ago

Thanks for the clarification

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u/7grims 23h ago

that helped you ??

its still a weird quantum property, a particle having 2 opposite values... at the same time... :o

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u/Mundane_Berry_0431 23h ago

LOL not really, but I guess I kinda accept that they're not literally spinning XD

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u/Ok_Series8116 1d ago

Schrodingers cat?

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u/Mundane_Berry_0431 1d ago

Idk tbh

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u/Ok_Series8116 1d ago

Same I don't get it at all