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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•8 hours agoIn fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time
minus-square@niktemadurlinkEnglish10•edit-22 hours agoThen there’s things like: “Passing through the magnetic field, exactly half the electrons went UP, and exactly half the electrons went DOWN”, and classical physics went OUT through the quantum window.
In fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time
Then there’s things like:
“Passing through the magnetic field, exactly half the electrons went UP, and exactly half the electrons went DOWN”, and classical physics went OUT through the quantum window.