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What are the principles of quantum mechanics? Since 1925, proponents of various interpretations have championed theirs, while doubters have searched for new ones. Principles, therefore, are important — but what do we mean by a “principle” when talking about a scientific theory?
The founding fathers were unable to form a clear picture of things on the remote atomic scale. They became very aware of ... the need for a ‘classical’ base from which to intervene on the quantum system. And so the shifty split.
—the late Irish physicist John Bell, speaking in Erice, Sicily, in 1989.
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Wick, D. (1995). Principles. In: The Infamous Boundary. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5361-7_18
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