With your second paragraph firmly in the back of my mind:
In the sister comment thread, two photon excitation seems to indicate that this intermediate state (0.5 in your coin example) is not invalid. Can you help me understand better?
Edit: Also, I think your coin "in transition" implicitly assumes that the system has more degrees of freedom than 1 bit (You can only flip a coin in 3 dimensions).
In the sister comment thread, two photon excitation seems to indicate that this intermediate state (0.5 in your coin example) is not invalid. Can you help me understand better?
Edit: Also, I think your coin "in transition" implicitly assumes that the system has more degrees of freedom than 1 bit (You can only flip a coin in 3 dimensions).