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Breaking the chain

The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution

By Steven French

https://aeon.co/essays/why-quantum-mechanics-needs-phenomenology?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=12e10a8cc1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Quantum theory at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20207

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The 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels was the fifth world physics conference.

1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics. Photograph by Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. From back to front and from left to right : Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin, Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics#/media/File:Solvay_conference_1927.jpg

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Who really won when Bergson and Einstein debated time?

Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?

By Evan Thompson via @aeonmag

https://aeon.co/essays/who-really-won-when-bergson-and-einstein-debated-time

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Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921

French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

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