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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Wave Function: A Statement of Our Knowledge and There Isn't a Reality Beneath It
We have this quantum wave function. It's the thing that you can't get away without having in any version of quantum mechanics. And so the epistemic folks want to say it's just a tool. There are people who hold positions that are extremely Copenhagen-like, who will say no. The wave function is a statement of our knowledge and there isn't a thing underneath it.
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