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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re:  Quantum Mechanics
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 02:00:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 02:00:27 1985
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> It is the superposition of "states" of the same system that
> is linear in the wave function, not a combination of systems.
> 
> I agree that quantum probability and/or logic clashes with
> the classical versions.  I hope to have the time to figure
> out how to resolve this.  Maybe someone could save us some
> work and explain it?

The explanation is easy, the classical versions are WRONG!
If we started teaching Quantum Field Theory as the first topic
in physics curricula we could derive all else from "last principles"
but then no one would be able to learn physics.