The Copenhagen Interpretation of General Relativity

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Even Einstein wasn't sure what relativity meant when you took it off the mathematical level and put it into the ordinary language. But meanwhile physics was growing remarkably in the area of quantum theory and we suddenly found we had two different types of physics. There is the Copenhagen interpretation which I like very much because it goes along with my general agnosticism. The Copenhagen interpretation was invented by Niels Bohr and a couple of his friends at the Karlsberg Brewery. That's an in-joke focus, he actually did live in theKarlsberg Brewery while he lived with the Karlsburg Brewery around him of the same grounds.

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