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Wouldn't it be valid to consider the LHC and its unobserved data as a superposition of all their possible states?

Note that the recording of information has effects outside the system, even if no human looks at the data - recording a zero or a one will require different levels of power that, while they average to a mostly constant power consumption, are there nevertheless.



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