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A blind physicist walks onto a beach, tasked with "defining the wave." Since he can't see its current state, he can only define it by the wave function that accounts for all possible forms within known constraints of ocean waves. But that's only because he can't see. The ocean is in a defined...

Ege_O, are you saying there is no consensus on this among physicists, that it depends on the QM interpretation? PeroK, are you saying it's simply the case that we haven't measured the vector, so we don't know it's exact state?

So you're saying there's an objective 'reality' to quantum states existing in superposition?

I have a basic question regarding quantum systems in their potential and defined states: Do quantum systems exist in many possible states (i.e. defined as an uncollapsed wave function) merely because we don’t know what state it’s in (i.e. because we haven’t ‘observed’ or measured it, and...