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I'm saying that you can represent probability distributions of classical objects as a "wave function."
by tylerhou 5y ago
I'm saying that you can represent probability distributions of classical objects as a "wave function."
- lisper 5y agoNo, you can't, at least not one that behaves like the quantum wave function does. Classical probabilities are real numbers between zero and one. The wave function takes on complex values, which allows you to add two wave-function values with non-zero magnitude and get zero, i.e. produce destructive interference. Classical probabilities can't do that.
- tsimionescu 5y agoSo basically a box with two colored balls could be described by a "classical wave functions" (a real-valued wave function), where the values of the two balls are entangled, and then yes, your experiment would exactly describe what happens. But this sheds no light on quantum wave functions and quantum entanglement.