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🧵 Post 1 / 3 — The Observation
🌀 A spirograph and quantum mechanics
While playing with a spirograph, we noticed something unexpectedly useful.
Simple mechanical constraints — rotation, phase relationships, and boundaries — generate nodal structures and dense/sparse regions that look strikingly like quantum probability distributions.
This doesn’t replace quantum mechanics, and it doesn’t claim electrons trace literal paths.
But it does raise an important question: if probability distributions emerge from constraints and interference, shouldn’t we be explicit about what those constraints are?
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