The physical reality of the quantum wave function

2015/01/28 by Gerd Leuchs, Leuchs, Gerd
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1501.07199

Contribution to the Berge Fest, Singapore, April 2014, 5 pages

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Abstract

Can it possibly be that the proper interpretation of quantum theory, which allows a quantum system to be in a superposition of mutually exclusive states, is itself a superposition of seemingly contradicting interpretations?

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