Quantum Mechanics Mysteries: Reality, Observer, Prediction, Collapse, and Correlated States
Ana Elisa D. Barioni, Felipe Boechat Mazzi, Elsa Bifano Pimenta +2 more
How come such a successful theory like Quantum Mechanics has so many
mysteries? The history of this theory is replete with dubious interpretations
and controversies. The knowledge of its predictions, however, caused the
amazing technological revolution of the last hundred years. In its very
beginning Einstein pointed out that there was something missing due to
contradictions with the relativity theory. So, even though Quantum Mechanics
explains all the physical phenomena, due to its mysteries, there were many
attempts to find a way to ``complete it, e.g. hidden-variable theories. In
this paper, we present these mysteries, with special attention to the concepts
of physical reality imposed by quantum mechanics, the role of the observer,
prediction limits, definition of collapse, and how to deal with correlated
states (the basic strategy for quantum computers and quantum teleportation).
The discussion is carried out by accepting that there is nothing important
missing. We are just restricted by the limitations imposed by quantum
mechanics. The mysteries are cleared out by a proper interpretation of these
limitations. This is done by introducing two interpretation rules within the
Copenhagen interpretation.
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