pp. 37 – 42 JSA-Vol. 2 (2023)

Abstract: Once measured, a simple quantum system collapses into one state. Before that, it can be in a superposition of several states. Though these exist in a probabilistic interpretation, we often say that ¸Sthe particle was in several states and collapsed to one”. Although the theory and experiments agree to this, it is counter-intuitive. We give a model that delivers a possible viewpoint to overcome that strangeness. We introduce two computation ideas to interpret this apparent variation of the number of states and model its counting: computation without zero, and computing state probabilities as projections in probability dimensions of the particle positions. We bypass the physics and mathematical formalism involved, focusing not on the states and their physics, but solely on the counting of the “number of states”, given its strangeness. This model is a simplification for discussion purposes. From an arithmetical point of view, our findings suggest a conservation law for the number of states, before and after a measurement, in favor of a convergent quantum and classical physics interpretation. We will end with an argument towards action at a distance from our previous ideas.