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Planck looks thick, Heisenberg looks uncertain...
Is that how it works? That these things become something definite when observed?
It's only that I think it might make a kind of metaphor for something I want to talk about in the bit that I am trying to write at the minute. but if I get it wrong then that would be silly.
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Planck looks thick, Heisenberg looks uncertain...
Is that how it works? That these things become something definite when observed?
There's been some recent thinking along the lines that observation has nothing to do with it, and actually the state collapses only when amplification takes place (which is always necessary in order for us to "observe" a quantum system). The gravity term, which is always neglected in quantum calculations, is thought by some to be the crucial thing: amplification always means shifting sizeable chunks of mass, the thinking goes, and when that happens the quantum state quickly collapses.
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Planck looks thick, Heisenberg looks uncertain...
Oh OK, thank you. I just want to talk about deciding between possibilities when we read, really, and how the reader influences the text. not meant to be in any way precise or anything.
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