Eli5: what is a superposition?
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Superposition as a concept is actually surprisingly simple, considering we mostly hear about it in things that aren’t very simple at all.
Basically, it’s the idea that you can just add up all the effects on the system to figure out it’s final state.
For example, if you and I have a shared savings account and I put $5 into and you put $15 into it the total amount of savings has now gone up by $20. That $20 increase is a superposition of our two changes.
This is used all over the place in physics. Since stuff tends to just…affect other stuff.
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