Equation 86 · Part 1 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close
Symbol X_NW
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W is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
…to Hegerfeldt’s obstruction that has actually held up is to stop asking for a sharp position operator at all. Werner’s screen observables replace the eigenvalue-and-projector structure of or with a positive-operator-valued measure: a family of positive operators, one for each region of a detection screen, that sum to the identity and assign a probability to “a click registered in this region” without ever claiming the particle possessed a definite position immediately…
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