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Measurement Process and the Macroscopic Level of Quantum Mechanics

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The Physicist’s Conception of Nature

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The measurement process remains an exciting epistemological problem in quantum mechanics as witnessed by the interest and even the passion this problem still arouses.

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  1. Ilya Prigogine
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  1. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

    Jagdish Mehra

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Prigogine, I. (1973). Measurement Process and the Macroscopic Level of Quantum Mechanics. In: Mehra, J. (eds) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_36

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