Abstract
In recent notes by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen and by Bohr, attention has been called to the fact that certain results of quantum mechanics are not to be reconciled with the assumption that a system has independently real properties as soon as it is free from mechanical interference. We here investigate in general, and in abstract terms, the extent of this disagreement. When suitably formulated, such an assumption gives to certain types of questions the same answers as does quantum mechanics; this is true of the formulas usually given in discussions of the theory of measurement. There exists, however, a general class of cases in which contradictions occur. That such contradictions are not restricted to the abstract mathematical theory, but can be realized in the commonest physical terms, is shown by the working out of an example..
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Bohr modelTheoretical physicsClass (philosophy)PhysicsEinsteinQuantumQuantum mechanicsGeneral theoryClassical mechanicsEpistemologyPhilosophy
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- 1936
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- article
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 393-399
- Citations
- 242
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W. H. Furry
(1936).
Note on the Quantum-Mechanical Theory of Measurement.
Physical Review
, 49
(5)
, 393-399.
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.49.393
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- 10.1103/physrev.49.393