Footnote †: Double Pendulums Are Crazy
A footnote to the video about Neutrino Shape-Shifting: https://youtu.be/7fgKBJDMO54 Sixty Symbols Video on Double Pendulum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy4a5erom8 Physics of The Double...
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Ok, so the main video was talking about neutrinos shapeshifting via superposition, and a similarthing happens if you take two pendulums and attach them with a spring – on their own,they’ll want to do one of two things: either swing together in the same direction, or exactlyopposite each other, and when they’re opposite each other, they swing slightly faster becauseof the help of the spring.But perhaps you interact with the pendulums, and push one of them to start it swinging.When you think about it, the first pendulum swinging by itself is actually a superpositionof both swinging the same way and both swinging opposite ways, combined so that the swingingof pendulum two cancels out.However, because the two “on their own” states of the pendulums don’t swing wi...
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Ok, so the main video was talking about neutrinos shapeshifting via superposition, and a similarthing happens if you take two pendulums and attach them with a spring – on their own,they’ll want to do one of two things: either swing together in the same direction, or exactlyopposite each other, and when they’re opposite each other, they swing slightly faster becauseof the help of the spring.But perhaps you interact with the pendulums, and push one of them to start it swinging.When you think about it, the first pendulum swinging by itself is actually a superpositionof both swinging the same way and both swinging opposite ways, combined so that the swingingof pendulum two cancels out.However, because the two “on their own” states of the pendulums don’t swing wi...
