"By now the reader will have realized that measurement in quantum physics is fundamentally different from that in classical physics. In classical physics, a measurement reveals a pre-existing property of the physical system that is tested. If a car is driving at 180 km h−1 on the highway, the measurement of its speed by radar determines a property that exists prior to the measurement, which gives the police the legitimacy to give a ticket to the driver. On the contrary, the measurement of the Sx component of a spin-1/2 particle in the state |+〉 does not reveal a value of Sx existing before the measurement. The spread in the results of measuring Sx in this case is sometimes attributed to “uncontrollable perturbation of the spin due to the measurement process,” but the value of Sx does not exist before the measurement, and that which does not exist cannot be perturbed."
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