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Re:Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Qua... by whimsicalism on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:43PM (#33290847)
> doesn't correspond to anything physically happening

It corresponds to the inner product of the two branches of the wavefunction going to 0 due to physical phenomenon.

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Re:Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Qua... by pdonis on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:47PM (#33290893)
That is decoherence, not collapse. Collapse, as a physical process, would be all of the branches but one ceasing to exist.
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Re:Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Qua... by whimsicalism on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:57PM (#33291035)
Oh I misread your comment - I thought you were referring to decoherence as the mathematical convenience. Now that I see that it was collapse, definitely agree.
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