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- Publisher
- American Association of Physics Teachers
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1998 American Association of Physics Teachers
- ISSN
- 0002-9505
- eISSN
- 1943-2909
- DOI
- 10.1119/1.18955
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
I explore whether it is possible to make sense of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality by taking the proper subject of physics to be correlation and only correlation, and by separating the problem of understanding the nature of quantum mechanics from the hard problem of understanding the nature of objective probability in individual systems, and the even harder problem of understanding the nature of conscious awareness. The resulting perspective on quantum mechanics is supported by some elementary but insufficiently emphasized theorems. Whether or not it is adequate as a new Weltanschauung , this point of view toward quantum mechanics provides a different perspective from which to teach the subject or explain its peculiar character to people in other fields. © ; 1998 American Association of Physics Teachers.
Journal
American Journal of Physics – American Association of Physics Teachers
Published: Sep 1, 1998
Keywords: teaching; quantum theory