The idea that something as pervasive and central as the Copenhagen interpretation might be dominant for “accidental” nonscientific reasons can be scary, especially for people who have devoted their entire lives to physics. Once you give up Copenhagen, “there’s more than one option on the table, and if there’s more than one option on the table then how do you decide?” asks Doreen Fraser, a philosopher of physics at the University of Waterloo. “Is it because you have certain prejudices about what’s interesting and what’s not interesting? Actually that’s a large part of it, but that’s kind of
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