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9 Oct 2024 02:25:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trivial trigonometry  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 1 Dec 2009 16:25:22
Message: <4b1589c2$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> when the state of the particle is "observed" (whatever that might mean)

Merely that you have done something to it which changes its unknown 
state, usually causing it to make contact with another particle(s), such 
as a detector. In effect, if the particle is on its own, and hasn't hit 
anything, it can be in a lot of places at once. In the case of light, 
"hitting" requires that the thing it hits have optical properties that 
have a high chance of making such a change, which things like air don't. 
But, don't ask me why in that case, other than it maybe involves optical 
properties and perhaps how often it "will" hit the other particles in 
the air itself. lol

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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