/sci/ - Science & Math

Is it really fair to say that runs of a quantum physics experiment (say, electrons through a double-slit apparatus) are 'identically prepared'?
Isn't this using an extremely sloppy definition of identical? I mean there's really no way to ensure that such a huge macroscopic system is really in an identical state before each electron is shot through the apparatus.

What gives, physicists?

>>8208812
>It's incredibly unlikely that actual massive change occurred in the span of 40,000 years for a population.
Indeed.

But seriously severe selection events cause rapid changes in short periods of time that can't occur via mere mutation.