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The formulation of quantum mechanics began in 1926 with the seminal work of Schrödinger and Heisenberg. In the years following their papers, the new calculational techniques were applied to a great variety of physical problems with an extraordinary degree of success. By any measure, quantum mechanics is an extremely successful theory: its predictions agree with experimental results to a very high degree of numerical accuracy. Yet despite the undeniable calculational precision of quantum mechanics, the debate still rages about what quantum theory tells us about the nature of matter at the microscopic scale. Physics students run into this problem every year when they first encounter quantum mechanics. Those who wish to do well in their exams tend to forget about the issue and concentrate on learning how to solve the equations, while experienced tutors tend to side-step awkward questions like “what does it all mean?”.
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Fox, A.M. (1997). Optical Tests of Bell’s Theorem. In: Driessen, A., Suarez, A. (eds) Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5428-4_9
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