The Nonexisting ‘Measurement Problem’
F. J. Duarte
The indeterminacy and stochasticity of quantum mechanics have nurtured an illustrious gathering of critics including Einstein, Schrödinger, Bell, and Penrose. This has been good for quantum mechanics since it has become the most ruggedized and most battle hardened branch of physics. The one criticism that is often alluded to, now days, is ‘the measurement problem.’ First of all, from a pragmatic perspective it can be categorically stated that there is no measurement problem. Quantum mechanics exquisitely agrees with experimental measurements. Secondly, the so called ‘measurement problem’ is often related, by supporters of this concept, to the alleged ‘collapse of the wave function’ which is an unobserved phenomenon. In this chapter, several aspects of this experimentally nonexisting problem are discussed in order to inform the reader on the measurement reality of quantum mechanics.
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