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Nature 453, 39 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453039a; Published online 30 April 2008
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Maximilian Schlosshauer1
- Maximilian Schlosshauer is a research fellow at the School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. He is author of Decoherence and the Quantum-to-Classical Transition.
Abstract
A purist approach to wavefunctions can resolve some of quantum theory's infamous murkiness.
As physicist Richard Feynman famously observed: "Nobody understands quantum mechanics." Whereas classical physics mirrors our everyday experiences — we can comprehend the idea of a tennis ball's velocity and apply Newton's laws of motion to explain it — this is not true of quantum physics.
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