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Copenhagen interpretation

British

noun

an interpretation of quantum mechanics developed by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, based on the concept of wave–particle duality and the idea that the observation influences the result of an experiment

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Physicists and philosophers have come up with lots of possibilities, notably the Copenhagen interpretation, the many-worlds hypothesis and the Bohmian pilot-wave model.

From Scientific American • Dec. 15, 2020

He dislikes the Copenhagen interpretation because it is a kind of anti-interpretation, which insists that the quantum realm is unknowable.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2019

He makes a convincing case that it’s wrong to imagine the Copenhagen interpretation as a single official or even coherent statement.

From New York Times • May 8, 2018

The popular four-word summary of the Copenhagen interpretation is: “Shut up and calculate!”

From New York Times • May 8, 2018

The Copenhagen interpretation had taken hold by the 1930s, and textbooks today state that Bohr’s view ‘won’.

From Nature • Mar. 26, 2018

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