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AMA | July 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How to Measure a Quantum System

Energy is special in quantum mechanics. It's the thing that appears in the Schrodinger equation. Systems that have a fixed constant energy don't evolve, says Gio Dude. The only states that interestingly evolve are those that are superpositions of states with different total energy.

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