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    Why do we think that collapse occurs at measurement?

    Thank you DrChinese. Do you know/have a recommended online source that concisely states the fundamental logic behind these experiments?
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    Why do we think that collapse occurs at measurement?

    Thank you for your response atty. To make sure I correctly understand what you are saying, I will try to summarize your post - please correct any mistakes in my expression of your meaning: 1) Bell experiments rule out local hidden variables as long as we assume that wavefunction collapses...
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    Why do we think that collapse occurs at measurement?

    Thank you for your reply Nugatory. Reading about Bell's experiment is exactly what brought me to this forum with my question. My interpretation of Bell's experiment according to the source I was reading (Wikipedia) is the following: 1) Assume wavefunction collapse occurs at measurement...
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    Why do we think that collapse occurs at measurement?

    Pardon me for my ignorance. This is a question of curiosity. I look for a concise logical argument as to why the community believes the following hypothetical situation and explanation is wrong. What justification is there for believing in waveform collapse at time of measurement? Is it...
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    Need Intuition Behind Expansion of Smaller Structures in the Universe

    Interesting stuff. I'll have some good material to read into based on your replies. Thank you both!
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    Need Intuition Behind Expansion of Smaller Structures in the Universe

    Thank you as well. I'll need to spend some more time reading the material you linked to, but the main thing I'm getting out of your response is expansion has basically the same underlying phenomenon as gravity (geodesic curvature) and that smaller-scale structures in the universe have forces on...
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    Need Intuition Behind Expansion of Smaller Structures in the Universe

    Ok thank you. So I don't understand why people say that space itself is expanding then... Based on what you said above, that does not seem to be case to me. The balloon analogy in the simulation I linked to above almost seems more like an initial velocity type of thing rather than "space...
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    Need Intuition Behind Expansion of Smaller Structures in the Universe

    I am trying to understand what is meant when people say space itself is expanding. When I hear that, I imagine a 3-d Cartesian coordinate system in which every axis gets scaled at a given rate (like in an animation). What I don't understand is, if everything gets scaled, then how can...
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