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Heisenberg's Epistemological Omission

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Scientific Paper
TitleHeisenberg's Epistemological Omission
Author(s)Evert Jan Post
KeywordsCopenhagen ensemble, uncertainty
Published1988
JournalPhysics Essays
Volume1
Number4
Pages279-284

Abstract

It is not possible to break out of the Copenhagen impasse with its limitations of indeterminacy unless the existing quantum formalism is identified and accepted as a description of an ensemble of single systems. The existence of, and need for an improved and more detailed pre-Copenhagen quantum mechanics is then implied. The present note is an assessment of fundamentals without undue technicalities.

(Rejects of the Past holding Promise for the Future)