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The classic paradoxes of quantum theory

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This paper contains four new dialogues among Simplicio, Salviati, and Sagredo, on the fate of Schrödinger's cat, the existence of physical quantities, the paradigm of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, and why a watched kettle may boil, after all.

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  1. Asher Peres

    Present address: Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 32 000, Haifa, Israel

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Dedicated to Nathan Rosen, teacher and friend, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

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Peres, A. The classic paradoxes of quantum theory. Found Phys 14, 1131–1145 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01882494

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