But its probability of not having decaded goes down exponentially with a
long half-life. And it would be in a superposition of decayed and
undecayed for a long time.
We don't observe |decayed>+|undecayed> or |decayed>-|undecayed> because
that would require an instrument for which that was an eigenvalue of the
measurement Hamiltonian. Being classical beings, we don't know how to
build such an instrument....maybe when we have quantum computers? Phil?
Brent
On 7/3/2018 4:52 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 5:18:25 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
The emergent nuclear interaction occurs on a time scale of
10^{-22}seconds. The superposition of a decayed and nondecayed
nucleus occurs in that time before decoherence.
LC
Hasn't the source had ample time to decohere way before you started to
look at it with some instrument? AG
On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 5:50:12 PM UTC-5,
agrays...@gmail.com wrote:
Why don't we observe the pure states, decayed + undecayed, or
decayed - undecayed? TIA, AG
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