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Old 24-April-2008, 01:16 AM
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The Copenhagen interpretation asserts that the existence of a wave function throughout a region is a measure of the probability that the corresponding particle exists at each point in that region. A measurement of the position of the particle causes the wave function to collapse to zero at every point except the determined position of the particle. The same action causes the motion of the particle to become completely unknown, It's a case of being able to have your cake or eat it but not both!
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