Fundamental superposition
Heavy sheets of rain are cut through by golden shafts of light filtering through the clouds, down in Mühlwald Tal.
Quantum physics teaches us that at the heart of what we call reality lies a strange feature called state superposition: a quantum system is in all its possible states at the same time, until somehow an act of measurement (or observation) "collapse its wave function", meaning that the system instantly "choose" a single state (and this is the corresponding outcome of the measurement).
The paradox known as Schrödinger's Cat, the poor kitty being at the same time dead and alive until someone checks the state of affairs, is the most known illustration of this feature of what is called the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Here the weather is in the superposed states of rainy and sunny; this was a fundamental superposition because the choice of one of these states would decide what we would have done the following day:
sun/decent weather = hiking :-) vs. rain = shopping :-(.
My taking this 3-bracketing apparently acted as a measurement: very soon after the shots the wave function collapsed, and the outcome was: rain. And rain it has been. Again. Sob.
HDRI from a 3-bracketing (-1.7/0/1.7 ev) generated and tonemapped with HDR Luminance 2.4.0:
Tonemapping operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.65
Saturation Factor: 1
Detail Factor: 2
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PreGamma: 0.88
Fundamental superposition
Heavy sheets of rain are cut through by golden shafts of light filtering through the clouds, down in Mühlwald Tal.
Quantum physics teaches us that at the heart of what we call reality lies a strange feature called state superposition: a quantum system is in all its possible states at the same time, until somehow an act of measurement (or observation) "collapse its wave function", meaning that the system instantly "choose" a single state (and this is the corresponding outcome of the measurement).
The paradox known as Schrödinger's Cat, the poor kitty being at the same time dead and alive until someone checks the state of affairs, is the most known illustration of this feature of what is called the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Here the weather is in the superposed states of rainy and sunny; this was a fundamental superposition because the choice of one of these states would decide what we would have done the following day:
sun/decent weather = hiking :-) vs. rain = shopping :-(.
My taking this 3-bracketing apparently acted as a measurement: very soon after the shots the wave function collapsed, and the outcome was: rain. And rain it has been. Again. Sob.
HDRI from a 3-bracketing (-1.7/0/1.7 ev) generated and tonemapped with HDR Luminance 2.4.0:
Tonemapping operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.65
Saturation Factor: 1
Detail Factor: 2
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PreGamma: 0.88