The Trouble with Physics
Lee Smolin
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Chapter 1
- Problem 2: Resolve the problems in the foundations of quantum mechanics, either by making sense of the theory as it stands or by inventing a new theory that does make sense. There are several different ways one might do this. Provide a sensible language for the theory, one that resolves all puzzles like the ones just mentioned and incorporates the division of the world into system and observer as an essential feature of the theory. Find a new interpretation of the theory—a new way of reading the equations—that is realist, so that measurement and observation play no role in the description of fundamental reality. Invent a new theory, one that gives a deeper understanding of nature than quantum mechanics does. #7274 •