- #1
meBigGuy
Gold Member
- 2,325
- 406
In lecture 2 of the Entnglement lecture series at theoreticalminimum.com, Susskind is explaining a classical interpretation of Measureable and Observable that left me confused. I'll watch it again tonight, but thought I might get a good clarification from the excellent teachers here.
In his example he assumed 6 classical states, using a six sided die as an example. He defined the observable mapping as a 1 if the die state was 6, and 0 otherwise. This is were I became somewhat confused. He didn't address, at all, the operation that sort of converts the state to the observable. Or even, how the state is determined. I understand that his choice of mapping values is arbitrary (that is he could have chosen any mapping).
So I thought, maybe this could be likened to a die with all sides 0 except 1, which is a 1. But, in this case you don't know what state you are in. You have the answer, but not how it came to be.
It seems that you need to know the state in order to apply the mapping.
So, I'm not entirely clear how all this fits observable and measureable, and I know I'm going to need to be rock solid on the classical analogy of this for lecture 3.
I know the answer to this is simple, it is just evading me. It feels fuzzy.
Thanks
In his example he assumed 6 classical states, using a six sided die as an example. He defined the observable mapping as a 1 if the die state was 6, and 0 otherwise. This is were I became somewhat confused. He didn't address, at all, the operation that sort of converts the state to the observable. Or even, how the state is determined. I understand that his choice of mapping values is arbitrary (that is he could have chosen any mapping).
So I thought, maybe this could be likened to a die with all sides 0 except 1, which is a 1. But, in this case you don't know what state you are in. You have the answer, but not how it came to be.
It seems that you need to know the state in order to apply the mapping.
So, I'm not entirely clear how all this fits observable and measureable, and I know I'm going to need to be rock solid on the classical analogy of this for lecture 3.
I know the answer to this is simple, it is just evading me. It feels fuzzy.
Thanks