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The last version of quantum mechanics that we will explore in detail was developed by Hugh Everett III while he was a graduate student under John Wheeler in the 1950s. Everett’s basic idea is at once beautifully elegant and uncomfortably radical. Max Jammer rightly described it as “one of the most daring and most ambitious theories ever constructed in the history of science” [1].
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Norsen, T. (2017). The Many-Worlds Theory. In: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65867-4_10
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