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Loading contentThe principle that a quantum system can exist in a combination of states at once until it is measured, when a single outcome is realised. It is the heart of quantum weirdness and of quantum computing, and it is the reason atomic transitions and particle interactions must be described in probabilities rather than certainties.
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