Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The cast of characters


Hermann Grabert kindly sent the photo of the participants at the 2nd Black Forest Focus on Soft Matter: Quantum efficiency from Biology to Materials Science.

There seems to be uncertainty about anyones position but I guess the camera made a projective measurement of everyones position onto a position eigenstate...
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