From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Lydia Marie Williamson  wrote or quoted:   
   >Does the electron "know" it is in a superposition before measurement,   
      
     "Superposition" only makes sense when it is said of /what/.   
     It's like asking whether a number "knows" it's a sum. Just   
     like any number can be seen as the sum of something, every   
     state can be seen as the superposition of other states.   
      
     When an electron was prepared with a spin up or spin down in   
     the /z/ direction, there are equal probabilities to then measure   
     spin up or down in the /x/ direction.   
      
     The violation of Bell's inequalities shows that before the spin   
     is measured in the x direction, the z prepared electron does /not   
     yet "know"/ whether it will have spin up or down in the x direction.   
      
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