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One of the most intriguing features of Quantum Mechanics (QM) is that it provides too good a description of microphenomena to be considered a mere recipe to predict probabilities of prospective measurement outcomes from given initial conditions and, yet, as a fundamental theory of reality, it gives rise to serious conceptual problems, among which the impossibility, in its orthodox interpretation, to think of all physical observables of the system under consideration as possessing in all instances definite values.
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Benatti, F., Ghirardi, G.C., Grassi, R. (1995). Quantum Mechanics with Spontaneous Localization and Experiments. In: Beltrametti, E.G., Lévy-Leblond, JM. (eds) Advances in Quantum Phenomena. NATO ASI Series, vol 347. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1975-1_16
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