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Jayson_Virissimo comments on Open Thread, January 15-31, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 16 January 2012 12:56AM

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 18 January 2012 11:05:39AM 2 points [-]

What dbaupp said. But in particular you square first and then add because arriving at a different time makes the possibilities distinguishable, and so there is no interference (you don't add the complex amplitudes).

Comment author: tgb 18 January 2012 01:32:30PM 0 points [-]

Ah good. This is a good explanation and I had been wondering how the different timing would affect it. Thanks to you and dbaupp.