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There is something truly paradoxial in quantum mechanics. Physicists know well how to use it for explaining or predicting an ever-increasing harvest of phenomena, some of which are striking, even to the expert. Nevertheless, and norwithstanding the appearance, even recently, of some sedative writings by both physicsts ([1]–[6]) and philosophers ofg science, it is clear that may among the leading theorists ([7]–[9]) and the fervent epistemologists ([10]–[13]) remain unsedated by the tranquilizing sort of remedies and keep suspecting that the problem of prerly interpreting quantum mechanics may well conceal a major enigma.
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Costa de Beauregard, O. (1984). Time Symmetry and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. In: Cohen, R.S., Wartofsky, M.W. (eds) Physical Sciences and History of Physics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7178-3_3
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