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Wave-function collapse also violates conservation of energy. (Unless you believe in Many-Worlds, that is.)





A state that can have the expected value of the energy change post measurement isn't considered to have an energy, rather an expected energy.

This is about the energy of the system as described by the Schrödinger equation.

If a measurement changes the expected value of the energy, one or both of the initial and final states won't be time-invariant, and you're talking about the time-invariant Schrodinger equation.



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