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Should we consider the wavefunction to have collapsed within the measuring device, or within the brain of the human experimenter? At what point in the chain from quantum event to macroscopic measuring device to observer reading the result and noting it in a lab book do we consider collapse to have occurred? Werner Heisenberg pondered this problem, and the point at which we separate the quantum from the classical world became known as the ‘Heisenberg cut’.
Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
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