Invitation to Quantum tea on Tuesdays: Copenhagen Interpretation versus Others.
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Hello Quantum Formalists, Quantum Mechanics is a deep, controversial, and challenging theory where some of our basic principles and intuitions must be reviewed or even abandoned. Since the beginning, disagreements about the best way to describe quantum phenomena have been present in the discussions of the theory founders (Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Einstein, etc.) and the post-scientists that popularized it (Feynman, Wheeler, Penrose, Hawking, etc.). However, a pragmatic point of view, led by Bohr (known as the Copenhagen interpretation), is in some sense the “official” interpretation, until today, from Quantum Mechanics, and it is present in most quantum mechanics textbooks. At the same time, Quantum Mechanics is a very successful theory tested in different scenarios and responsible for several technological and theoretical advances in the knowledge of Nature in the past century. However, it was these technological advances that made it possible that some experiments, in particular one [1], violated the Bell inequalities [2], and revealed that some type of basic locality criterion could not be respected by Nature. This and the following development of topics related to Quantum Computation/Information revived discussions about the best way to interpret the Quantum Mechanics phenomena again.
Invitation to Quantum tea on Tuesdays: Copenhagen Interpretation versus Others.
Invitation to Quantum tea on Tuesdays…
Invitation to Quantum tea on Tuesdays: Copenhagen Interpretation versus Others.
Hello Quantum Formalists, Quantum Mechanics is a deep, controversial, and challenging theory where some of our basic principles and intuitions must be reviewed or even abandoned. Since the beginning, disagreements about the best way to describe quantum phenomena have been present in the discussions of the theory founders (Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Einstein, etc.) and the post-scientists that popularized it (Feynman, Wheeler, Penrose, Hawking, etc.). However, a pragmatic point of view, led by Bohr (known as the Copenhagen interpretation), is in some sense the “official” interpretation, until today, from Quantum Mechanics, and it is present in most quantum mechanics textbooks. At the same time, Quantum Mechanics is a very successful theory tested in different scenarios and responsible for several technological and theoretical advances in the knowledge of Nature in the past century. However, it was these technological advances that made it possible that some experiments, in particular one [1], violated the Bell inequalities [2], and revealed that some type of basic locality criterion could not be respected by Nature. This and the following development of topics related to Quantum Computation/Information revived discussions about the best way to interpret the Quantum Mechanics phenomena again.