@Brent. Good explanation. I never thought about it. On Saturday 5 October 2024 at 10:09:01 UTC+3 Alan Grayson wrote:
> On Friday, October 4, 2024 at 10:39:31 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: > > On Friday, October 4, 2024 at 10:17:41 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: > > On Friday, October 4, 2024 at 9:14:38 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > > On 10/4/2024 7:31 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 4, 2024 at 5:48:31 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: > > No, this was a conundrum of classical physics which was solved when > Heisenberg showed that on Christmas eve Santa Claus was in a superposition > of being down every chimney at once. > > Brent > > > Superposition just means we are ignorant of which state a system is in, > not that it is in all states simultaneously. This is the meaning of > Schrodinger's cat. AG > > Exactly wrong. > > Brent > > > We know what ignorance is. We don't know what simultaneous in all states > means, except maybe Bohr. How about a few explanatory words? AG > > > Superposition could mean the system is not in any state defined by the > superposition, and measurement determines what will be that state, BUT it > doesn't mean the system is in all states simultaneously. AG > > > What I wrote above is consistent with a postulate of QM, that what will be > measured, is an eigenvalue of some eigenfunction of the relevant operator, > and that the system's state will be that eigenfunction after the > measurement. So, when we write a superposition, there's nothing to suggest > the system before measurement is in all possible states simultaneously. AG > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a0503ef2-8a51-4c1c-8848-9517f2d5ef08n%40googlegroups.com.
