State of mind

• Autores: Matthew Chalmers
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2968, 2014, págs. 32-35
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Chalmers features David Mermin, an atomic physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca NY who has spent most of his half-century-long career rejecting philosophical musings about the nature of quantum theory. Mermin reveals that the way to solve quantum conundrums is to abandon the ingrained idea that humans can ever achieve an objective view of reality. According to this provocative idea, the world is not uncertain--people are. The idea that an objective, universally valid view of the world can be achieved by making properly controlled measurements is perhaps the most basic assumption of modern science