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Old 26-April-2006, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Kaptain K
Not quite. Quantum theory say an object has a "possibility of existing" in many different places at once. It doesn't actually "exist" in any of them until observation "collapses the wavefront".
That's what I always figured QM to mean... Since it's all just waveforms and such right, where the particle is the quantization of the waveform it depends entirely on where in the waveform the particle happens to be at the time of observation, correct?


Something like this, except not as simplistic..right?

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