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Most physicists eventually accepted this idea as an empirical fact of measurement, but assumed that a flaw in quantum mechanics created the uncertainty. This book has been written as a contribution to the evolution of human consciousness, see. Well be focusing on just one aspect of this theory, which is the concept of superposition. Quantum mechanics by richard fitzpatrick is a complete set of lecture notes for a graduate quantum mechanics course. In this theory, the quantum wave function collapses due to a conscious observer making a measurement of a physical system. Each such event has a psychological aspect and an associated physiological aspect. The physicists john bell and alain aspect established that the universe at its most basic level is nonlocal. Rather must continue to describe our experience of definite terpretation of bohmian quantum mechanics in which only bohmian positions.
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