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In another thread, that is now closed, someone said that 1000's of experiments support the proposition that a particle can be in two, mutually exclusive states at the same time.
The results of experiments show just the opposite. The measured result is not a superposition state. They never measure a result that is a superposition of eigenstates.
Here is a link to the closed thread.
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/still-unclear-on-superposition.910949/
For an observable with a finite (=n) , discrete spectrum, there can be at most n possible outcomes of a quantum experiment, regardless of the basis chosen to represent those outcomes. If you consider the superposition states to be allowed outcomes then there would be an infinite number of allowed outcomes for all operator (which I think implies a continuous spectrum as well)
The results of experiments show just the opposite. The measured result is not a superposition state. They never measure a result that is a superposition of eigenstates.
Here is a link to the closed thread.
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/still-unclear-on-superposition.910949/
For an observable with a finite (=n) , discrete spectrum, there can be at most n possible outcomes of a quantum experiment, regardless of the basis chosen to represent those outcomes. If you consider the superposition states to be allowed outcomes then there would be an infinite number of allowed outcomes for all operator (which I think implies a continuous spectrum as well)
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