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The Quantum Measurement Problem: What the Born Rule Explains

The Born rule predicts outcome probabilities. Explaining how those probabilities relate to definite records is a separate challenge. A 2026 analysis revisits the assumptions behind influential derivations without settling the…

Quantum Mechanics 7 min read

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What Is Schrödinger’s Cat?

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…

Quantum Mechanics 10 min read

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What Is the Schrödinger Equation?

In late 1925 Peter Debye told Erwin Schrödinger that talk of electron waves was childish without a wave equation. Within weeks Schrödinger had one, and a century later it still…

Quantum Mechanics 14 min read

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