steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
Flip a coin in a dark room. At any point in time position has any number of probabilities. A wave equation would predict the probability of coin being a in position if the light is flashed on and off.
When the coin comes to rest on the floor the wave function has collapse into a measurable state.
In principle not that complicated.
BTW, from a bio I read Einstein was a party animal of his day. He played a violin. He enjoyed eating, drinking, and smoking with his peers. He was hardly the stereotypical academic.
Having been in academia for a decent chunk of my life I can say that the vast majority of academics eat, drink, and party with their peers. Some even smoke. Many play instruments. I don’t know what the stereotype is but the implication doesn’t seem to fit with my observations.
It was said on a bio when people went looking for Feynman he could be found in a strip club sketching women.