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I get so many questions about physics, so I thought I would boil it down
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Imagine a person walking from home to school, how many paths is he taking?
Note, I am asking how many paths he is taking, NOT how many paths he can take.
The answer is ONE of course, he could have taken a shortcut, he could have wandered around the neighbourhood, he could have chosen a zig-zag-like fanciful way of walking.
The point is, once he has made up this mind, now he is on his way to school, he is taking only ONE path.
This is not happening to an atom which is billion times smaller than us. The atom is taking multiple paths when moving from one point to one point!
When you observe it, the atom will appear to be at one point, for you!
When you do not observe it, the atom appears everywhere again, countless possibilities.
Bizarre? That's Quantum Mechanics. My favorite (Other than Black Holes, Dark Matter, String Theory, and Porn)
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Ooo, so Quantum Mechanics are fun, but lets talk about discreet mathmatics and how we accept them although they directly conflict with our acception of Quantum mechanics.