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AaS! 187: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 5: Dreams of Copenhagen)

40 min • 1 november 2022

Part 5! What is the Copenhagen interpretation? How did the debates between Heisenberg and Schrodinger influence later physicists? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the “shut up and calculate” approach to quantum mechanics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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