New approach to the quantum measurement problem Date: March 15, 2017 Source: Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) Summary: Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic theory that does not describe individual ...

By Hamish Johnston. This morning on BBC Radio 4, the mathematician Roger Penrose, physicist Basil Hiley, and philosopher Simon Saunders had a lively discussion about the “measurement problem in ...

What precisely happens when a quantum measurement is performed? That’s the quantum measurement problem, in broad strokes. There are optimistic folks, like David Mermin (see Physics Today, June 2022, ...

After the Danish physicist Niels Bohr articulated and refined what became known as the Copenhagen interpretation — widely regarded as the orthodox view of quantum mechanics — in the 1930s and ’40s, it ...