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To: LibWhacker
According to the weird rules of quantum mechanics, until a measurement is performed on a quantum particle, the property being measured has no definite value; measuring snaps the particle into a definite state, but that state is drawn randomly from a probability distribution of possible states.


2 posted on 07/31/2012 12:00:18 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

—According to the weird rules of quantum mechanics, until a measurement is performed on a quantum particle, the property being measured has no definite value; measuring snaps the particle into a definite state, but that state is drawn randomly from a probability distribution of possible states.—

And then someone shows up in a ship powered by the infinite improbability drive and messes the whole thing up.


14 posted on 07/31/2012 12:34:29 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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