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    Challenges→Including decoherence in the quantum mechanical description does not dissolve the measurement problem — the composite system of electron, apparatus, and environment is still left in a superposition of distinct outcome states.

    If no empirically accessible quantity can distinguish a superposition from a mixture, the 'remaining superposition' is operationally vacuous and cannot constitute a measurement problem.

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    Empirically accessible(as used in epistemology)
    Able to be experienced or tested through direct observation and measurement in the real world, rather than just imagined or reasoned about theoretically.
    Operationally vacuous(as a description of why 'exclusion of interference' doesn't work)
    Something that sounds meaningful in theory but is useless in actual practice because you can't really do it or measure it.
    Superposition(as used in quantum mechanics and the measurement problem)
    A quantum state where something exists in multiple different conditions at the same time until it's actually measured or observed.
    measurement problem(philosophy of physics / foundations of quantum mechanics)
    The problem that textbook quantum theory provides two apparently incompatible rules for wave function evolution—deterministic Schrödinger dynamics when unobserved and random collapse upon measurement—without explaining how to reconcile them

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    mixture(in contrast with chemical compound)
    A combination of two or more substances where each substance keeps its own properties and can be separated back out (like mixing salt and sand).

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