Jeroen Pietryga

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The most fundamental difference between Newtonian physics and quantum mechanics is the fact that quantum mechanics is based upon observations (“measurements”). Without a measurement of some kind, quantum mechanics is mute. Quantum mechanics says nothing about what happens between measurements. In Heisenberg’s words: “The term ‘happens’ is restricted to the observation.”15 This is very important, for it constitutes a philosophy of science unlike any before it.
Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)
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