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We learn about our physical universe by doing experiments. That is, first we do something such as flip a coin, or touch a hot stove, or measure how long it takes a marble to drop from a certain height. Then we record what happens after we do it—the coin comes up heads, we get burned, the marble takes 6 seconds to drop. What we record is called an outcome of the experiment. We identify an experiment by its outcome set, so we can write C = (heads, tails) to denote the coin flip experiment.
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Cohen, D.W. (1989). Experiments, Measure and Integration. In: An Introduction to Hilbert Space and Quantum Logic. Problem Books in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8841-8_1
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