Quantum World Is Only Smoke and Mirrors
DOI: 10.1063/1.4797183
David Mermin reported that nobody seems to know what Niels Bohr really said—or meant—or what the Copenhagen interpretation really is. I find that amusing. It appears typical for the confusion arising (necessarily?) from attempts to give Bohr’s ingenious pragmatism a consistent meaning.
Could it be that three generations of physicists learned, accepted, and taught an ill-defined quantum theory, and that Einstein’s and Schrödinger’s reservations were justified—even though those two great men were not yet ready to accept a nonlocal (entangled) reality, as it is described by a general wave function?
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H. Dieter Zeh, (zeh@urz.uni-heidelberg.de) University of Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany .
