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bmh100 on Dec 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave ...

Then wouldn't an appropriately constructed sensor be able to record the full linear combination of quantum states?

lisper on Dec 18, 2016 [–]

No, because records are necessarily classical. This is because of the no-cloning theorem. You cannot copy quantum information, only classical information.

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