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What Is the Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics?
Quantum theory has two rules for how states change and no agreed account of when the second one applies. A century on, experiments are finally narrowing the options.
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Quantum theory has two rules for how states change and no agreed account of when the second one applies. A century on, experiments are finally narrowing the options.
Schrödinger's cat is the most famous image in quantum physics, and it is almost always told backwards. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger did not claim a cat could be alive and…
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