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Comment by Nyarpy on Decoherence · 2012-10-04T20:30:12.438Z · LW · GW

I've on my second reading of the Quantum Physics Sequence, and this struck me the first time as well, so now I've got to ask.

"The system at left is highly entangled—it's got a joint distribution that looks something like, 'There's two particles, and either they're both over here, or they're both over there.'"

Isn't this wrong, given the diagram? Wouldn't a description of this diagram be, "There are two particles, one over here and one over there?" Why wouldn't the diagram fold along the diagonal like in the "No Individual Particles" post? Wouldn't a diagram with a blob in the top-right and a blob in the lower-left better match the description given?