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Is my interpretation of the underlying idea behind this 2022 Nobel Prize story “How physicists proved the universe isn’t real” more or less accurate?
I’m not very good at math but I frequently watch PBS Spacetime on YouTube to try to satisfy my curiosity about physics despite that.
In a recent video by Dr Ben Miles titled “How Physicists Proved the ...
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When light reflects off a mirror, does the wave function collapse?
This question is specific to the Copenhagen interpretation, which states that the wave function collapses on interaction. If we have a beam of light reflected off a mirror, whether you see this light ...
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Entropy before and after collapse of the wavefunction and interpretation?
Seems like it might be pretty rudimentary but I want to see if my thinking is on the right track as well as what the result means.
The question is, is the entropy of the collapse of a wavefunction or ...
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