Helgoland’s anti-Fuchs was the physicist Gemma De les Coves. “I do not understand quantum mechanics,” she said. “They are a bunch of mathematical recipes, and they are inconsistent.” 6/9
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Some folks were feeling ennui. It’s been a century. What now? “What do we do when we’ve been working on a problem like this with some very great minds for the last hundred years?” asked philosopher and historian of physics Elise Crull. 7/9
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The infamous many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics inspires especially strong feelings. “My biggest fear is that on my tombstone it will say, ‘he made us believe in the many worlds [interpretation],’” said Lucien Hardy, a physicist at the Perimeter Institute. 8/9
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One uniting sentiment was the sense that a more satisfying understanding of reality awaits. “We’re privileged to live at a time when the great prize of making sense of quantum theory is still there for the taking,” Robert Spekkens said, “and any one of us could take it.” 9/9
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