A particle in a superposition between location X and location Y is in a strange state of being both at X and at Y while being definitely at neither
MWENYA IIhas quoted2 years ago
Most of our modern technology, from computers to smart phones to GPS, is reliant on the predictive power of quantum mechanics
MWENYA IIhas quoted2 years ago
Nobody really knows what a superposition is, but we can think of it as a sort of refusal on the part of reality to be definitely one way or the other
MWENYA IIhas quoted2 years ago
As far as the Schrödinger equation is concerned, particles are neither here nor there but somehow both at the same time; radioactive substances neither decay nor don’t decay but somehow manage to do both at the same time.