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I see. So when a particle is not in vacuum but there are some atoms around (the atoms of the boxes in this case), decoherence occurs? Or do you need some "cut" like when the boxes are shut? I suppose that such a "cut" is necessary. Otherwise, we would contradict with the double-slit experiment...

Let me think: the boxes do not immediately cause the wave function collapse, because they are not equipped with detectors. *Before* the collapse and after the doors are closed, the wave function is split in two disjoint volumes, and we (or a scale) cannot tell where the particle is. We can only...

What happens when the boxes are equipped with scales? I suppose that the scales will show zero difference, otherwise we could detect where the particle is. When our particle interacts with some of the atoms of either box, the momentum-exchange can be detected by the corresponding scale. Is this...

Hello all, I am a newcomer here. Not a physicist, just an enthusiast. ;) I was thinking whether it is possible to separate a one-particle wave function into two, "completely disjoint" parts. The following thought experiment explains better what I am thinking about. Let us suppose, that there...