Ep63 - Sean Carroll: "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"
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Quantum Mechanics - What's Up With That?
Physicists in the 1920s invented an idea called the collapse of the wave function. They said that when you measure a quantum mechanical system, its wave function suddenly and unpredictably changes. This is what's called the textbook or Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Neil Bohr was a founder and defender of the Copenhagen interpretation. He says: "This is clearly unacceptable as a fundamental theory of nature"
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