Timeline for What does the Copenhagen Interpretation say about after a collapse?
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| Aug 16 at 1:17 | comment | added | BENG | I see, and the measurement problem comes from delineating what is the mechanism that causes a random jump into an eigenstate, correct? | |
| Aug 15 at 18:02 | comment | added | WillO | @beng : Except at the instant of measurement, the wave function evolves according to the schrodinger equation. At the instant of measurement, it jumps to an eigenstate of the observable being measured, and then proceeds unitarily from there. | |
| Aug 15 at 5:35 | comment | added | BENG | so the wave function continues as it would wether or not we perform a measurement? so measuring the particle does not affect the wave equation, it just gives us a collapsed value. but what about double slit experiments where measuring the particle before does change the outcome. are we not “collapsing the superposition into a position” and it persists as a particle until it hits the sensor? | |
| Jul 29 at 9:47 | comment | added | Vercassivelaunos | +1 for being concise, but it might be helpful to clarify that collapse just means that a quantum state with a specific value for the observable is attained, it doesn't become a classical system all of a sudden. | |
| Jul 29 at 0:59 | history | answered | WillO | CC BY-SA 4.0 |