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> the coins are constantly flipping ... the other coin stops flipping at the very same time I'm not sure this corresponds to my understanding of the wave funct
by platz 10y ago
> the coins are constantly flipping ... the other coin stops flipping at the very same time
I'm not sure this corresponds to my understanding of the wave function before observation.
Just because the probabilities for each state is less than 1, to me doesn't mean that it's "constantly flipping". Only that upon measurement there's a probability that one of those states gets defined/constrained.
This is what i think susskind meant by understanding the whole (probabilities of the wave function of the whole system), without understanding the parts "the particles" i.e. it's kind of not right to think of just the parts here. It's only the system+parts that must be thought of together (which of course is why one of the reasons no-one truly understands it).
- danbruc 10y agoI'm not sure this corresponds to my understanding of the wave function before observation. This was only meant as a classical model how the outcome is not predetermined, I did not want to imply that the wave function oscillates back and forth between two states or something like that. I could also have said that you place two coins in each box and one randomly explodes when you look in the box. And of course the corresponding coin in the second box also explodes simultaneously.