The concept of the objective reality of the elementary particles has thus evaporated not into the fog of some new, unclear, or not yet understood reality concept, but into the transparent clarity of a mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of the elementary particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.
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"The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals."
"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts."
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."
"The idea of a simple, objective reality existing independently of the observer has become untenable."
"It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life,…"
Summarizing the shift in quantum interpretation
Date: 1955 (Physics and Philosophy)
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