I don’t understand..
When we observe it, we can define it’s state right? But it was never in both states. It was only in one, we just didn’t know which one it is. It’s not like if I go back in time and open the box at a different time, that the outcome will be different. It is one of the 2 outcomes, we just don’t know which one until we look. And when we look we discover which one it was, it was never the 2 at the same time. This is what’s been bugging me. Can anyone help explain it? Or am I thinking about it wrong?
In: Physics
it was a super simple thought experiment to explain something that isn’t simple.
in superposition, a quantum system is in all states at once. or you could say it’s not in any states. say when you hit the enter button a computer tells you “yes” or “no” at random. The computer is holding these in superposition where until the point you hit enter (observe it) the outcome is both yes and no.
essentially, the computer is holding all possible outcomes at the same time and only the act of you observing it forces it to collapse down to one of the possible outcomes.
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