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In Chap. 2, we reviewed the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics and practiced applying it to a number of concrete examples. In the present chapter, we will begin the process of stepping back and turning a critical eye toward the theory. In particular, in this chapter, we will look carefully at the curiously central role that the theory gives to the process of “measurement” and discuss the network of related concerns, centering on the infamous example of Schrödinger’s Cat, that have come to be called “the measurement problem.”
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Norsen, T. (2017). The Measurement Problem. In: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65867-4_3
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