Socks come in pairs. If you put a sock on your left foot, the other sock of the pair instantly becomes the “right sock,” no matter where it is located in the universe.
@dgar re: lb: I would say "…the other sock is the 'right sock', no matter where it is…"
striking the "instantly becomes" bit — there's not really a time element to this, just like space doesn't apply. with relativity some observers will see the right sock being put on the right foot first, and some will see the left sock being put on first. one doesn't cause the other.
(the key is that the action you take is "put on a sock" and you find out — not decide — which foot it goes on.)
@dgar Only for older people. Today's kids don't wear pairs of socks - they'll buy a pack like this and then wear two different coloured socks each day.
@dgar The quantum hyperposition can be explained on a chocolate bar. It's neither existing or eaten until observed. Then the chocolate function collapse. 😂
@dgar It's worse than that. Once you've footed one sock, all the corresponding peeps in all the parallel universes also abruptly find themselves inexplicably socked too.
Learning QE helped me make much more sense of my life...
I think our washing machine contains a wormhole that selects one sock from every pair the first time they are washed and shoots them off into an alien world somewhere never to be seen on Earth again.
For this reason one sock from every pair now exists/doesn't exist...somewhere? A sort of Schrodinger's Sock, if you will.
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