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I'm trying to understand the movement of particles due to quantum mechanics. I made this image. It is a magical receptor box. Every time an H atom strikes a receptor, the letter associated with that receptor shows up as a read out on a computer. For example if a H atom hits the top receptor, it would read out "a". Every time a receptor is hit, another letter is added. You might see "abebdceavaaabedcdea" after a second.
What I want to know is, if you could have two "universes" (this has nothing to do with alternate universes) each with its own receptor box, with the EXACT SAME initial conditions for EVERY variable (same temperature, same exact position of H atoms, etc), and after 10 seconds, you freeze time and look at the computers, will the read outs be the same? Would one say "cebeadcbea" and once say "decbccbbaaaebca"?
Basically, do they move randomly? If they do, does decoherence stop their random movement since they will obviously collide with each other or the walls of the box. [edit] When I say random movement, I do NOT mean normal bouncing around like a bunch of rubber balls in a box. I mean random movement because of whatever quantum forces.
[PLAIN]http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7637/tankdu.jpg
What I want to know is, if you could have two "universes" (this has nothing to do with alternate universes) each with its own receptor box, with the EXACT SAME initial conditions for EVERY variable (same temperature, same exact position of H atoms, etc), and after 10 seconds, you freeze time and look at the computers, will the read outs be the same? Would one say "cebeadcbea" and once say "decbccbbaaaebca"?
Basically, do they move randomly? If they do, does decoherence stop their random movement since they will obviously collide with each other or the walls of the box. [edit] When I say random movement, I do NOT mean normal bouncing around like a bunch of rubber balls in a box. I mean random movement because of whatever quantum forces.
[PLAIN]http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7637/tankdu.jpg
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