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whimsicalism on Oct 21, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Experiments spell doom for physical-collapse expla...

> doesn't correspond to anything physically happening

It corresponds to the inner product of the two branches of the wavefunction going to 0 due to physical phenomenon.

pdonis on Oct 21, 2022 [–]

That is decoherence, not collapse. Collapse, as a physical process, would be all of the branches but one ceasing to exist.

whimsicalism on Oct 21, 2022 | [–]

Oh I misread your comment - I thought you were referring to decoherence as the mathematical convenience. Now that I see that it was collapse, definitely agree.

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