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<blockquote data-quote="Chesterton" data-source="post: 64891394" data-attributes="member: 225709"><p>Say I have one type of material - cardboard, paper, wood, metal, whatever - and I break it in two. I have one can of paint - say, a certain hue of blue paint. I paint both halves of the material with the same blue paint. If I used hypothetically the world's finest spectrophotometer (a god-like one), I should be able to detect two slightly different shades of the color blue on each half, right?, because the photons will behave randomly.</p><p> </p><p>Of course according to QM taken literally, one half could appear blue and the other red or green, or one of the materials could suddenly appear as an elephant...</p><p> </p><p>Is it simply the "Law of Large Numbers" (which I realize is a misnomer) operating on the photons which will make both halves appear to be the same color?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chesterton, post: 64891394, member: 225709"] Say I have one type of material - cardboard, paper, wood, metal, whatever - and I break it in two. I have one can of paint - say, a certain hue of blue paint. I paint both halves of the material with the same blue paint. If I used hypothetically the world's finest spectrophotometer (a god-like one), I should be able to detect two slightly different shades of the color blue on each half, right?, because the photons will behave randomly. Of course according to QM taken literally, one half could appear blue and the other red or green, or one of the materials could suddenly appear as an elephant... Is it simply the "Law of Large Numbers" (which I realize is a misnomer) operating on the photons which will make both halves appear to be the same color? [/QUOTE]
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