On 7/27/2025 3:50 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
*>> The direction you want to call UP/DN is entirely up to
you, but whatever axis you pick if an unmeasured electron
enters a Stern–Gerlach magnet that is oriented along that
axis*
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/> If it's an unmeasured electron the the chance of UP or DN could
be anything. Maybe it's an UP electron from a source that only
produces UP electrons./
*If that is the case then somewhere and sometime in its lifetime the
electron must've encountered something equivalent to a Stern–Gerlach
magnet, and so the electron is _NOT_ unmeasured. *
So if I illuminate a piece of iron with some photons that knock out
electrons via the photoelectric effect, then on passing them thru an SG
magnet and detecting their distribution, you say they must necessarily
be 50/50 UP/DN?
Brent
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*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
utc
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