Timeline for A novice question on Quantum Mechanics
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| Dec 24, 2012 at 20:29 | comment | added | Chris Gerig | The answer is yes, precisely for the reason explained here (physics-wise). | |
| Dec 24, 2012 at 18:17 | comment | added | Ryan | Chris Gerig, see my question to Leonard above. | |
| Dec 24, 2012 at 11:57 | comment | added | Chris Gerig | Am I not clearing that up?: States are not rays, they just 'correspond' to them. The ray $|A\rangle$ can be added to itself without affecting the state, because on the state-level, "adding" is superposition (and superposing an object with itself gives you the same object). | |
| Dec 24, 2012 at 11:22 | comment | added | Michael Murray | But if states are rays in a Hilbert space then you have the problem that rays cannot be added. I think that is Ryan's concern. | |
| Dec 24, 2012 at 10:44 | history | answered | Chris Gerig | CC BY-SA 3.0 |