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|    Preparation of electron spin directions    |
|    26 Feb 19 19:30:36    |
      I have just written the following in a draft commentary on (someone       else's) Bell model.              "However, I do not believe that electrons can be aligned exactly in a       given direction. That would require measuring along three base axes       simultaneously. That cannot happen as only one measurement axis is       permitted at a time. So preparation of an electron in the direction of       vector a is a fuzzy process not an exact one. Particles can change spin       axes on detection to reverse the direction of their spin axes. That       suffices to point them in the general direction of (say) vector a. That       is, clearly pointing more towards say vector a rather than towards       vector a*, but not pointing exactly in line with vector a."              This is broadly-speaking true, isn't it?              [Moderator's note: Due to possibly garbled characters, the vector names       might not be what was intended. It seems that the point is to       distinguish two vectors, above denoted by a and a*. -P.H.]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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