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lucas_ said:You don't get what I was asking. The outcome is probabilistic and the rest didn't occur.. but because it's random, instead of these eigenvalues of position we get now.. it could be others, and these made up the initial probability distribution, I was asking what are the other probability distribution that didn't occur. Could it made the position eigenstate of your body be slightly to the right such that you are say 1 foot to the right in those outcome that didn't occur but could have occur. Do you understand what I'm saying?
In probability there is no probability that didn't occur. You don't know something with certainty so you assign a probability. When that something happens we know with a dead cert what the outcome is.
Look at it another way. Copenhagen is in fact compatible with quite a few different interpretations eg BM and MW. In BM everything is deterministic - probabilities are introduced due to lack of knowledge of initial conditions and in QM you can't know them exactly so you can only speak of probabilities - but everything is objective - there is no different possible outcome. In MW its the opposite - you don't actually get an outcome - we experience simply some aspect of this universal wave-function. Your query doesn't make sense in BM, only MW. Copenhagen is agnostic to it.
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Bill