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> Measurement choice impacts the field equations, because you are field equations too.

This sounds nice, but doesn't actually work if you try to apply it in practice, because however many experiments you'll perform on classical objects, you'll only ever observe properties for one basis of measurement, whereas you'll get different results for different bases for quantum objects.

In other words, how come when I observe a single atom, I can see it in a state like (1/sqrt(2))|spin up> + (1/sqrt(2))|spin down>, but I can never observe a basket ball in a similar state? If it were just a matter of my field equations happening to only match certain kinds of states, that should apply exactly as much to a single atom as it would to ~6,022*10^23 atoms.



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