Re: Measuring a system in a superposition of states vs in a mixed state

2018-11-14 Thread Pierz
Obviously you can't measure the particle simultaneously in the up and down state. Nobody believes that. Nobody is arguing it. Honestly it's hard to understand why you have such an agitated bee in your bonnet about superpositions. The mathematical expression of the photon polarised at 45 degrees

Re: Measuring a system in a superposition of states vs in a mixed state

2018-11-14 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 10:20:09 PM UTC, Pierz wrote: > > Obviously you can't measure the particle simultaneously in the up and down > state. Nobody believes that. Bruno does. Nobody is arguing it. Bruno argues it. Honestly it's hard to understand why you have such an agitated

Re: Measuring a system in a superposition of states vs in a mixed state

2018-11-14 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 10:20:09 PM UTC, Pierz wrote: > > Obviously you can't measure the particle simultaneously in the up and down > state. Nobody believes that. Nobody is arguing it. *Haven't you ever heard of physicists, some prominent who write books about QM for the lay publ

Re: Measuring a system in a superposition of states vs in a mixed state

2018-11-14 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 6:55:36 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 10:20:09 PM UTC, Pierz wrote: >> >> Obviously you can't measure the particle simultaneously in the up and >> down state. Nobody believes that. Nobody is arguing it. > > >