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Originally Posted by QuikSand
Ksyrup probably had the right idea.
I'm bumping this thread because I have done a little more reading on the topic, and again up against the measurement/existence precipice, and I once again am unable to make any more progress with my own intuition.
I understand the statements that learned people make about these topics -- it's not that I don't understand what people are saying ro claiming. I just am completely unable to process it as having real meaning.
Alas... thanks to those who, in this thread, have given me even more to think about. I am reaching the conclusion that I simply will never make intuitive peace with these concepts, and will have to come to terms with that. I appreciate the interesting contributions, though.
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Are you caught up on the "can know velocity or location but not both" thing?
In our macro world, you have a baseball. You throw it and you can measure both it's velocity and location very easily. The act of observing it does nothing to baseball because it is so large.
To see something, you have to bounce light off of it. Photons will affect a baseball, but it is such a small amount that it isn't even worth measuring.
A particle of light bouncing off a tiny particle, however, alters it's trajectory so that it is no longer where you saw it last. That is how observation interfers. You know where the particle "was" at a particular moment in time but you can never really see it because seeing it (light bouncing off of it) alters its location so it is like you are chasing a ghost.
Horrible explanation, but it's the best way I was able to understand it.