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    The Unsolved Puzzle: Interactions, not measurements
    The Unsolved Puzzle: Interactions, not measurements
    The Unsolved Puzzle: Interactions, not measurements
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    The Unsolved Puzzle: Interactions, not measurements

    By Jonathan Kerr

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    This book works at more than one level, and is for popular science readers and physicists alike. It's about the puzzle of quantum mechanics: is it the mind of the experimenter that causes the change from waves to particles, or could it be something else? For ninety years observations have been thought to do it, but now physicists are startin

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGordon Books
    Release dateDec 27, 2019
    ISBN9780956422255
    The Unsolved Puzzle: Interactions, not measurements

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