There are ideas so there are many solutions of this problem. The point is that each one of thes is disconcertingall disconcerting. And let me just give you some ideas about what this solutions are. One is to take very seriously the mathematics self. This wave that is used the mathematical apparatus to predict what happened, its actually the real thing. Another solution is to believe that there is a layer of reality which is sort of underlying what qonte mechanics describe. They are all very costly conceptually. And i think the current situation isa that we really don't know which conceptill cost us better to pay to make sense of the theory.
It has been more than a century since the groundwork of quantum physics was first formulated and yet the consequences of the theory still elude both scientists and philosophers. Why does light sometimes behave as a wave, and other times as a particle? Why does the outcome of an experiment apparently depend on whether the particles are being observed or not? In the first of two episodes, Ian Sample sits down with the physicist Carlo Rovelli to discuss the strange consequences of quantum theory and the explanation he sets out in his book Helgoland. Help support our independent journalism at
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