On 12/8/2017 4:49 PM, smitra wrote:
It's not irrelevant if you don't have the information that locates you in a sector where the uncertainties are indeed small enough. You have to start with the complete state in the bird's view, and then consider the sector where you have some definite information and then project onto that subspace.
That reminds me of a student asked to find the spot where silver atoms would strike the detector after passing through a Stern-Gerlach instrument who started, "Well first you should write down the Hamiltonian of the Stern-Gerlach magnets..."
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