Re: Colllapse of the wave equation - not!
From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 08/02/04
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:27:50 GMT
"Greysky" <greyskynospam@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:X5sPc.5552$AY5.3263@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> This problem has been seemingly one of the largest conceptual problems of
> the quantum physics. How a 'probability wave' can be in a superposition of
> states, essentially an infinite number of states, yet somehow collapse to
> only one outcome when observed with our various apparatus.
You have a wave function that can be used to calculate the
probabilities of the various outcomes of some experiment.
After the experiment the outcome is known and you have
another wave function.
Someone decided to call this "the collapse of the wavefunction".
Dirk Vdm
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