Super Mario World and Quantum Physics

[DarkeSword]

http://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=20

Found this great little article today that gives you a basic primer on some quantum physics concepts along with a demonstration using Super Mario World playthroughs super-imposed over each other.

Enjoy.

[LuckyXIII]

wow...

kinda helps me understand a concept that's been rattling around in my head for just such a sci-fi story...

[Dhsu]

That was a whole lot cooler than I was expecting even after knowing what it was.

Also my avatar will fight your avatar, DarkeSword.

ROUND 1

[eternal Zero]

This is much more amusing to me since I already understand the concept behind it. That and the style of video itself could be quite interesting.

[Dhsu]

What's the most interesting is how many of the runs overlap EXACTLY down to the last millisecond, for at least 30 seconds or so.

[BardicKnowledge]

For those of you who haven't seen it, here's Averaging Gradius also.

[Antipode]

Love to see this done with, say, the original SMB.

[Super-Duper Sombrero]

What's the most interesting is how many of the runs overlap EXACTLY down to the last millisecond, for at least 30 seconds or so.

You know when you're playing on an emulator, and it takes you a couple tried to get somewhere, then you save the state? Each time the Mario splits up, it's all from one savestate.

So they're not perfectly overlapped, until a certain spot, it's just one until the savestate.

If that makes any sense at all.

[q-pa]

I wonder how he gets the "camera" to follow only one Mario. In other words, why are there not multiple background instances the way there are multiple Marios and enemies?

I guess he's just using the sprite layer and not the 4 background layers.

But yes, this is very cool and informative. As he said, it gives us the best of both worlds: the perfect run and the humor of all the attempts.

[the_muteKi]

Love to see this done with, say, the original SMB.

Should be possible with All-Stars.

[BardicKnowledge]

I really like the idea of putting this in the hands of a complete non-gamer and watching the learning process. It would definitely make for an interesting video...

[friendlyHunter]

Nice video - the fact that he got the camera to follow only one Mario shows it's some pretty impressive hacking, and not just a series of video recordings.

Also my avatar will fight your avatar, DarkeSword.

ROUND 1

Whoever wins advances to Round 2 against Super-Duper Sombrero's avatar, and then Round 3 with his sig.

[Arrow]

That was insane. Loved it.

http://msm.grumpybumpers.com/?p=17 - Here's another one he did talking about whether it would be possible (if you have futuristic tech to do so) to build the type of small spherical planetoids you see in Super Mario Galaxy in a way that would give them normal Earth gravity like they seem to have in that game.

[DragonAvenger]

My brain was melting and learning while watching that video.

At the same time.