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Physics World

Self-inflicted weirdness

H. Kroemer

Published Aug 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

I enjoyed reading Robert P Crease's column on “Quantum guidebooks” (June pp19–20), particularly the opening sentence of the last paragraph, in which he suggests that the “weirdness” of quantum mechanics stems “not from the quantum world, but from us”.
DOI
10.1088/2058-7058/25/08/31

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