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Hugh Everett letter to Aage Petersen, June-1956

Hugh Everett

Published Jun 1, 1956• 0 citations
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Aage Petersen was Niels Bohr's personal assistant. Along with Bohr, Petersen spent the fall of 1954 in Princeton and he and Everett became friends. As someone close to both Everett and to Bohr, Petersen was one of Everett's principal correspondents concerning the relationship between his work and the Copenhagen interpretation. Since he considered Petersen a friend, Everett was often more informal and frank about his appraisals of the Copenhagen response to his thesis in correspondence with Petersen than with other Bohr acolytes. In this letter, for instance, Everett is explicit that he does not believe the Copenhagen physicists have understood his proposal and he encourages Petersen to re-read his thesis more carefully.

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Aage Petersen was Niels Bohr's personal assistant. Along with Bohr, Petersen spent the fall of 1954 in Princeton and he and Everett became friends. As someone close to both Everett and to Bohr, Petersen was one of Everett's principal correspondents concerning the relationship between his work and the Copenhagen interpretation. Since he considered Petersen a friend, Everett was often more informal and frank about his appraisals of the Copenhagen response to his thesis in correspondence with Petersen than with other Bohr acolytes. In this letter, for instance, Everett is explicit that he does not believe the Copenhagen physicists have understood his proposal and he encourages Petersen to re-read his thesis more carefully.
Aage Petersen was Niels Bohr's personal assistant. Along with Bohr, Petersen spent the fall of 1954 in Princeton and he and Everett became friends. As someone close to both Everett and to Bohr, Petersen was one of Everett's principal correspondents concerning the relationship between his work and the Copenhagen interpretation. Since he considered Petersen a friend, Everett was often more informal and frank about his appraisals of the Copenhagen response to his thesis in correspondence with Petersen than with other Bohr acolytes. In this letter Everett responds testily to Petersen's criticisms of his and Wheeler's preprint, as expressed in Petersen's letter of April 24, 1957.
Aage Petersen was Niels Bohr's personal assistant. Along with Bohr, Petersen spent the fall of 1954 in Princeton and he and Everett became friends. As someone close to both Everett and to Bohr, Petersen was one of Everett's principal correspondents concerning the relationship between his work and the Copenhagen interpretation. Petersen and Wheeler both served as intermediaries between Everett and Bohr. Here Everett describes his itinerary for a visit to Copenhagen, several years in the planning. Everett and Bohr did finally have a chance to meet, but it was not very profitable.
Aage Petersen was Niels Bohr's personal assistant. Along with Bohr, Petersen spent the fall of 1954 in Princeton and he and Hugh Everett became friends. As someone close to both Everett and to Bohr, Petersen was one of Everett's principal correspondents concerning the relationship between his work and the Copenhagen interpretation. Since both men considered the other a friend, they tended to be more frank and informal in discussing the Copenhagen reaction to Everett's work than some of Everett's correspondence. Here Petersen reports the Copenhagen line in response to both Everett and Wheeler's Reviews of Modern Physics preprints.
Aage Petersen was Niels Bohr's personal assistant. Along with Bohr, Petersen spent the fall of 1954 in Princeton and he and Hugh Everett III became friends. As someone close to both Everett and to Bohr, Petersen was one of Everett's principal correspondents concerning the relationship between his work and the Copenhagen interpretation. This letter is principally social: it congratulates Everett on his marriage and expresses a hope that Petersen and Everett will find a time to meet when Petersen accompanied Bohr on a visit to the U.S. Petersen passes on the opportunity to respond in detail to Everett's arguments in his previous letter.
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Aage Petersen was Niels Bohr's personal assistant. Along with Bohr, Petersen spent the fall of 1954 in Princeton and he and Hugh Everett III became friends. As someone close to both Everett and to Bohr, Petersen was one of Everett's principal correspondents concerning the relationship between his work and the Copenhagen interpretation. The final version of this letter does not seem to exist any longer, but this draft reflects that Everett is still trying to arrange a time to meet with Bohr. The plans proposed here did not come to fruition.