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BenAS
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This I'd guess is a simple question for this forum. I'm just a middle age dude who never went to school and have taken an interest in physics, just trying learn how it works.
The question is, suppose you have an electron with a spin in a superposition of both up spin and down spin. It is my understanding that you are 'not allowed' to choose which spin the electron ends up with. You can only have the electron interact with something at which time 'it' chooses which spin it gets somehow. Why can't we choose?
Maybe just direct me to some material on the subject.
Thanks
The question is, suppose you have an electron with a spin in a superposition of both up spin and down spin. It is my understanding that you are 'not allowed' to choose which spin the electron ends up with. You can only have the electron interact with something at which time 'it' chooses which spin it gets somehow. Why can't we choose?
Maybe just direct me to some material on the subject.
Thanks