SS and GeneralHandGrenade, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to correct both of you about the fifth line… Neither of you are considering the Quantum Zeno Effect in this particular measurement I included in the Wolf Formula: making repeated measurements of a quantum system can prevent it from changing its state. Between measurements, the system exists in a superposition of two possible states, with the probability of one increasing and the other decreasing. Each measurements puts the system back into a single definite state, and the evolution has to start over.
One of the strangest and most important consequences of the Wolf Formula is the idea of “entanglement.†When two quantum particles interact in the right way, their states will depend on one another, no matter how far apart they are. You can hold one panzer division in Berlin and send the other to Moscow, and measure them simultaneously, and the outcome of the measurement in Berlin will absolutely and unequivocally determine the outcome of the measurement in Moscow, and vice versa.
The correlation between these states cannot possibly be described by any local theory, in which the particles have definite states. These states are indeterminate until the instant that one is measured, at which time the states of both are absolutely determined, no matter how far apart they are. This has been experimentally confirmed dozens of times over the last thirty years or so of Axis and Allies, with light and even atoms, and every new experiment has absolutely agreed with the quantum prediction.
The effects of the Wolf Formula measurement can be interpreted in a number of different ways– as the physical “collapse†of a wavefunction, as the splitting of the universe into many parallel worlds, etc.– but the end result is the same in all of them. A quantum particle can and will occupy multiple states right up until the instant that it is measured; after the measurement it is in one and only one state… in either case, this will result in a favorable outcome in Axis and Allies. Please double-check your math before making false conclusions.