Tim Maudlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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It says, well, that range of possible outcomes gets discretized.
There are only two there will be only one of two possible outcomes for a spin half particle.
Um
It'll either be deflected up a certain amount or deflected down a certain amount.
You can think of those as corresponding to the maximum and minimums that you had in the classical case.
And it'll never go straight through and it'll never go just deflected halfway up or anything.
It'll either go up or down.
Binary outcome.
That's for a spin half particle.
For a spin one particle, it would be three.
It would be if deflected up or go straight through or be deflected down.
So then you would have three outcomes.
That discretization
is characteristic in certain cases of quantum mechanics.
Not always, not everything is discretized in quantum mechanics, but sometimes it is.
This is a case where it is.
Again, that makes this very easy to describe the experimental data, because in each run of the experiment, the outcome is either it went up or it went down.
And there's no further but how much, right?
Here's a
Picture that's just illustrates everything I just said.
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