Sentences with phrase «interpretation of quantum mechanics»

In starting from the conventional interpretation of quantum mechanics, physicists had not realized such measurements were possible.

No other interpretation of quantum mechanics can make that claim.

Shannon Hall quotes Michael Hall as saying that the main problem with Hugh Everett's many - worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics comes from confusion over what constitutes a measurement (21 January, p 28).

For example, according to the so - called Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, one is simply not allowed to ask what happened in a situation where no measurement was made.

Their results rule out a large class of interpretations of quantum mechanics and suggest that if there is any objective description of the world, the famous wave function is part of it: Schrödinger's cat actually is both dead and alive.

Shannon Hall quotes Michael Hall as saying that the main problem with Hugh Everett's many - worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics comes...

Here was what Bell had been groping for, on and off since his student days: some quantitative means of distinguishing Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics from other coherent, self - consistent possibilities.

Hodgson has much sympathy for this position and argues for a new realism in physics, and is firmly against speculations drawn from a sub-realist interpretation of quantum mechanics (eg.

Haven't you heard of the parallel - universe interpretation of quantum mechanics, where many universes simply self - destruct in ignorance?

More importantly, it raises the perennial question of the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics (QM).

The most famous is Schrödinger's cat, which demonstrates the implausibility of a certain interpretation of quantum mechanics using a classic reductio ad absurdum.

According to the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics (although «orthodox» seems an odd description for such a radical world view), subatomic entities such as electrons or photons are either waves or particles — depending on how the physicist chooses to observe them.

At least a dozen interpretations of quantum mechanics vie for physicists» hearts and minds, each with a radically different take on reality.

In the midst of the Sturm und Drang, Bohm crafted his own hidden variables interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Movements are unknown until they're observed, according to the traditional interpretation of quantum mechanics.

How strange that supporters of the many - worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics fail to grasp the bleak moral implications of this...

I've just finished editing the second edition of my book, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, in which I think I strengthen the argument that none of the existing interpretations of quantum mechanics are entirely satisfactory.

But Tollaksen was most taken by another area of Aharonov's research: a time - twisting interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Sophia Chen describes the lack of consensus over interpretations of quantum mechanics, presenting it as some sort of crisis (7...

Niedra broke with many other scientists in a letter following an interview, writing that while Mills's theory butts up against popular interpretations of quantum mechanics, «in fact, however, quantum mechanics may permit such [hydrino electron] levels.»

Along the way, they may have unified two of the most bizarre ideas dreamed up by scientists — the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the multiverse.

I think this illustrates that the interpretation of quantum mechanics has by no means been settled.

[2] P. MITTELSTAEDT, The interpretation of quantum mechanics and the measurement process, Cambridge UP., 1998, p. 47 - 57, 62 - 64.

In our May 2011 Cutting Edge column and our November 2005 editorial we applied this insight to low - level, or subatomic, physics, using De Broglie's interpretation of quantum mechanics.

The many interacting worlds idea echoes an earlier many - worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, thought up by theorist Hugh Everett in the 1950s, in which the universe splits into pairs of parallel universes every time a wave function collapses.

Everett's idea is now known as the «many worlds» interpretation of quantum mechanics.

People don't want to change the Schrödinger equation, leading them to what's called the «many worlds» interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Pusey, Barrett and Rudolph's theorem, known as PBR, uses a sophisticated mathematical argument to show that any interpretation of quantum mechanics that doesn't treat the wave function as a real object invariably leads to results that contradict quantum theory itself.

In some interpretations of quantum mechanics, the universe only comes into being when we observe it, and the act of observing it actually determines what happens next by forcing reality into one of many possible outcomes.

The standard rules of quantum mechanics work extremely well, but, given that there are still open questions regarding the interpretation of quantum mechanics, scientists are not sure whether the current rules are the final story.

In 1927, the French physicist Louis de Broglie, who first proposed that particles could behave like waves, developed an interpretation of quantum mechanics called pilot wave theory, where waves and particles are both equally real.

Quantum physics is notorious for implying the existence of multiple realities, as articulated in the «many worlds» interpretation of quantum mechanics.

«That is, it seems worth considering yet another interpretation of quantum mechanics.»

That attitude has been called the «shut up and calculate» interpretation of quantum mechanics.

It does not depend on exotic theories such as the multiverse or the «many worlds» interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which the universe constantly bifurcates.

In his profile of Hugh Everett and his many - worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, «The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett,» Peter Byrne states that Bryce S. DeWitt «swung around 180 degrees [on Everett's theory] and became its most devoted champion,» thus implying that previously DeWitt had a negative opinion of the theory.

And as it happens, one interpretation of quantum mechanics that used to be somewhat obscure has suddenly become popular because it's better adapted for explaining quantum computation, at least to human brains.

Brian Greene explains the «many worlds» interpretation of quantum mechanics (5 February, p 30) by stating «if quantum mechanics predicts...

This echoes an interpretation of quantum mechanics based on the work of David Bohm, long considered a maverick, but whose work is now seen as a serious alternative to the standard «Copenhagen Interpretation» of quantum mechanics.

«To me it seems obvious that if ER = EPR is true it is a very big deal, and it must affect the foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics.»

Two weeks ago, I blogged about David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Einstein's theories of relativity and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics are the most widely known examples in which commonsense views about space, matter, energy, and motion are rejected.

An illustration showing Schrödinger's cat experiment, which Schrödinger came up with in 1935 to discredit what he felt were apparent contradictions in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.