... But it didn't. The anonymous posting system simply doesn't work. The reason behind this is that everybody can post what the fuck they want - whenever the fuck they want to. This results in 99,5 % of all posts being completely useless, and nobody wants to read them.
Why do I never see anybody posting anything intelligent here anymore?
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Anonymous2006-06-08 6:35
Why do I never see anybody posting anything intelligent here anymore?
The inner product between two state vectors is a complex number known as a probability amplitude. During a measurement, the probability that a system collapses from a given initial state to a particular eigenstate is given by the square of the absolute value of the probability amplitudes between the initial and final states. The possible results of a measurement are the eigenvalues of the operator - which explains the choice of Hermitian operators, for which all the eigenvalues are real. We can find the probability distribution of an observable in a given state by computing the spectral decomposition of the corresponding operator. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is represented by the statement that the operators corresponding to certain observables do not commute.