2009/01/29 by Kristian Camilleri · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Medicine · Arts and Humanities · #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Philosophy, Science, and History
paper · doi:10.1162/posc.2009.17.1.26
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According to the standard view, the so-called ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics originated in discussions between Bohr and Heisenberg in 1927, and was defended by Bohr in his classic debate with Einstein. Yet recent scholarship has shown Bohr's views were never widely accepted, let alone properly understood, by his contemporaries, many of whom held divergent views of the ‘Copenhagen orthodoxy’. This paper examines how the ‘myth of the Copenhagen interpretation’ was constructed by situating it in the context of Soviet Marxist critique of quantum mechanics in the 1950s and the response by physicists such as Heisenberg and Rosenfeld.