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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:18 AM Original message |
Any quantum physicists in here? Little help, por favor. |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. Because the "given state" is not the only possible state that may be observed. |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Imagine a single electron orbiting a hydrogen nucleus. |
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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Whoa. |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:59 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. ... |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:49 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Yeah, but the electron is still somewhere in the shell, right? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. "Heisenberg is why we have probabilities?" |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:58 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Exactly so. |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Ok...and there are only a finite number of possible alternative states, right? |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. There may or may not be. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:54 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. No. |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:58 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Don't complicate things |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
2. I'm not a quantum physicist but I did watch the movie "What the Bleep do We Know" |
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Dogtown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. You need to ask |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
4. what billyskank said, and |
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Dr. Strange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. Locking. |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. or not |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
10. 42 |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
13. Look no further than radioactive decay |
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