Is the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics implied by the correspondence principle?

Kurt Gottfried

pp. 179-185

in: Daniel Greenberger, Anton Zeilinger (eds), Epistemological and experimental perspectives on quantum physics, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

Our impresarion, Anton Zeilinger, ignored my pleas of ignorance and prevailed on me to talk about my discussions with John Bell about the foundations of quantum mechanics. This "debate' was aborted by John's tragic death shortly after we last met at a wonderful workshop in Amherst attended by several people in this audience. At that time, John's last paper "Against Measurement" was about to be published.[1] It featured a wonderfully barbed attack on the treatment of measurement in my 1966 textbook. I was delighted that the most profound student of quantum mechanics since the Founding Fathers, and an old friend from CERN, had paid close attention to what I had written, because with but one exception, [2] no one publishing in the field had ever mentioned my work even when espousing a position that I had taken long before.

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