Tim Maudlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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If I orient it at some angle, it'll still be deflected, but less than it would be if it were exactly oriented, right?
So this is the range of outcomes the classical theory would predict given this inhomogeneous magnetic field.
Okay.
And so
Again, the the the to do this classically, again, it's very easy.
You just need to make an inhomogeneous magnetic field.
So the field lines, you know, if you kind of picture the magnetic field by field lines, the density of field lines is changing.
It's not constant.
And the easy way to do that, and the way they did do it, is just to take your magnet that has a big magnet that has a north and a south pole, and you make them geep geom geometrically different.
You make one of them, say the north pole very pointy, and the and the one on the bottom very flat or even
concave.
And from that
geometrical difference when you draw the magnetic field lines, you see the density changes from top to bottom.
And that's what g that classically is what would give you a net force on this bar magnet and deflect it.
But as we just saw, classically, if you ask, well, how is it going to be deflected?
You could say, well, it depends on the exact orientation of my bar magnet.
There's there's a range of cases, there's a continuous range of cases from a maximum downward to a maximum upward deflection.
What happens when you treat this quantum mechanically, and again it's now if you ask, but why does it do that?
We're we're not in the business right now of saying why it does that.
This is just what quantum the quantum mechanical formalism predicts.
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