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[JerZey CJ]

Me and my friend were talking, and the subject of a character in a show we watch firing their guns faster when you don't see them on screen came up, which vaguely jogged my memory about a scientific law that I think I remember. Something about things moving at a different speed if you don't look at them or something, again, may not be an actual thing and I may be misremembering, but yeah, if there is one, what is it called?

[ObserverStatus]

JerZeyCJ2 wrote...

Me and my friend were talking, and the subject of a character in a show we watch firing their guns faster when you don't see them on screen came up, which vaguely jogged my memory about a scientific law that I think I remember. Something about things moving at a different speed if you don't look at them or something, again, may not be an actual thing and I may be misremembering, but yeah, if there is one, what is it called?

I think it's called Heisenberg Uncertainty Priciple.There was a joke about it on Futurama, there was a horse race where two horses finised at so close to the same time that they had to use an electron microscope to determine which one won, and when they determined that the Professor's horse lost he said "No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!"

Modifié par bobobo878, 20 janvier 2014 - 09:59 .

[OdanUrr]

JerZeyCJ2 wrote...

Me and my friend were talking, and the subject of a character in a show we watch firing their guns faster when you don't see them on screen came up, which vaguely jogged my memory about a scientific law that I think I remember. Something about things moving at a different speed if you don't look at them or something, again, may not be an actual thing and I may be misremembering, but yeah, if there is one, what is it called?

Are you referring, by any chance, to time dilation? Time dilation basically says that time moves at different speeds for two observers moving relative to each other.

Here's a video of Brian Cox explaining this bit of Einstein's theory of relativity:

[Ravensword]

EntropicAngel wrote...

bobobo878 wrote...

It's called Heisenberg Uncertainty Priciple.There was a joke about it on Futurama, there was a horse race where two horses finised at so close to the same time that they had to use an electron microscope to determine which one won, and when they determined that the Professor's horse lost he said "No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!"

That sounds different from what they're referring to.

You're referring to the "principle" that observing a variable changes the variable--just changes, not in any particular way. He seems to be referring to it actually being consistently faster when outside of vision.

I don't know of any scientific law that refers to that. Of course, the obvious answer is that it's a show. Drama often wavers on realism (even internally, as in this case) for additional effect.

Quantum mechanics.

[mybudgee]

Subjective percpetion bias

[Ravensword]

EntropicAngel wrote...

Ravensword wrote...

Quantum mechanics.

I don't think Quantum mechanics is a consistent "faster when not looking."

Quantum mechanics is more "everywhere and nowhere at once*"

*take that with a grain of salt, because I've yet to study Quantum mechanics. Give me a month or so. But regardless.

Well, you can't change something by measuring it. It just means that when you're trying to measure the position of a particle, less is known about its momentum and vice versa. You can't know both simultaneously and w/ exact precision. At least that's how I understand it.

[mybudgee]

Blue Velvet is an incredible film

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Simple perception tools can't recognize complex reality and beyond.