Some questions for the poster called jesus is with you

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@Nyarlathotep

It would be much more clear if instead of saying “collapsed” we said: the object’s wave function has collapsed (changed) so that it is only composed out of a single plain wave, guaranteeing you can only get one possible result should you measure the associated variable, on the associated particle; and consequently the wave function in the conjugate basis will be a combination of every possible plain wave in that basis (typically an infinite number of them), leading to you getting a random result should you try to make a measurement associated with that basis. But instead people get lazy and say collapsed, leading to people who only read the headlines thinking a particle can collapse; or worse that there is something magical about this.

But aren’t you just shifting the mystery from “collapse” to “getting a random result”?

The outcome of the experiment is the same: the random measurement could occur at any possible position of the particle, and the detector may detect nothing. However, the detector must have somehow caused a difference. How?