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usonian

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Tue Feb 4, 2025, 01:46 AM Feb 2025

Why even physicists still don't understand quantum theory 100 years on [View all]

Quantum mechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed — and few can agree on what that means.

By Sean Carroll

And I tunneled through a paywall. Faster than Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension!

Nature.
https://archive.ph/EMw8E

So much here, but this gives a flavor of the article. (Not a pun)


So, physicists don’t agree on what precisely a measurement is, whether wavefunctions represent physical reality, whether there are physical variables in addition to the wavefunction or whether the wavefunction always obeys the Schrödinger equation. Despite all this, modern quantum mechanics has given us some of the most precisely tested predictions in all of science, with agreement between theory and experiment stretching to many decimal places.


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