I feel that the discussion of "collapse" in quantum mechanics is best understood as a probability distribution describing the likelihood of a particle existing within a tiny region of space.For instance, within a given microscopic region, there might be a 7% probability that particle A exists there, a 3% probability that particle B exists there, and a 90% probability that nothing is there at all. In this way, multiple possibilities coexist as a distribution at the same time.Let me translate this into an everyday analogy.Suppose you are the only person riding in a train car. In that situation, you can freely spread your belongings across all ten seats. However, the moment thirty passengers board the car, the seats on which you can place your belongings are narrowed down to just one.The "range of possible places to put your luggage," which had been broadly spread out, becomes fixed to a single point due to an external condition — namely, the arrival of other passengers. Collapse, I would argue, is a phenomenon that can be grasped through this very kind of image.
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