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Revision as of 18:29, January 14, 2008
The principle of superposition states that should two waves occupy the same space, their amplitudes will add together. In quantum mechanics, the principles refers to the wave equation of a system being able to decohere to multiple states, and implies that a particle or system exists in multiple states at the same time.