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Luke_A_Somers comments on Open thread, August 5-11, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 August 2013 02:56:44PM 0 points [-]

Not to undermine your point, but |up, up> + |down, down> is perfectly oriented in the X direction.

What works better for this is that you indicate that the state is A |up, up> + B|down, down>, and you don't know A and B.

Comment author: Manfred 05 August 2013 09:14:21PM 1 point [-]

|up, up> + |down, down> is perfectly oriented in the X direction.

Nay. (|up>+|down>)(|up>+|down>) is oriented in the X-direction.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 August 2013 09:41:45PM 0 points [-]

Hmmm... Yes.

I'm used to people forgetting that every single-particle spinor maps onto a single direction. Then I forget spinor addition. Oops.