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Proof that Time Travel Harry did not fix Little Chicago?? (CD Spoilers)
Elegast:
--- Quote from: Cenphx on February 12, 2013, 07:28:38 PM --- The way I understand what you are saying, tell me if I am wrong, is kind of how light is both a wave and a particle, which I know to be true but cannot grasp how it is both at the same time.
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It's not that hard (at least on the intuitive level). The trick is to understand that the position of a photon is undefined until measured.
Then the wave is simply a function describing the probability of presence of the photon: when the wave is high the probability is high a photon will be found there if the field is measured.
However, once you measure, the photon will be found in a single and unique location.
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: wizard nelson on February 14, 2013, 01:36:50 PM ----continuation MISS DUCK i could kiss you! this explains perfectly the minor changes in details in the story like why morts hair and home changed. it was a timeline fluctuation brought on by a predestination loop :-* ;D
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me explain by the fact that Harrys actually wrote the books (his biography at some time in the future) and may have made some mistakes. Probably because his note turned KFC extra crispy in changes
Cenphx:
Yeah, its the bit about the position being undefined until measured that bothers me. Heisenberg be damned. I like my particles to be somewhere whether im looking at them or not. :)
wizard nelson:
--- Quote from: Ms Duck on February 14, 2013, 01:53:53 PM ---me explain by the fact that Harrys actually wrote the books (his biography at some time in the future) and may have made some mistakes. Probably because his note turned KFC extra crispy in changes
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room of recollection. shaazam! its why he can usually write in the present tense. he's directly remembering his thoughts in magnified clarity.
aShorty21:
--- Quote from: Cenphx on February 14, 2013, 01:54:12 PM ---Yeah, its the bit about the position being undefined until measured that bothers me. Heisenberg be damned. I like my particles to be somewhere whether im looking at them or not. :)
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Agreed.
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