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100 Years of the Quantum
Max Tegmark, John Archibald Wheeler
abstract: As quantum theory celebrates its 100th birthday, spectacular successes are
mixed with outstanding puzzles and promises of new technologies. This article
reviews both the successes of quantum theory and the ongoing debate about its
consequences for issues ranging from quantum computation to consciousness,
parallel universes and the nature of physical reality. We argue that modern
experiments and the discovery of decoherence have have shifted prevailing
quantum interpretations away from wave function collapse towards unitary
physics, and discuss quantum processes in the framework of a tripartite
subject-object-environment decomposition. We conclude with some speculations on
the bigger picture and the search for a unified theory of quantum gravity.
- oai_identifier:
- oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0101077
- categories:
- quant-ph hep-th physics.pop-ph
- comments:
- This is the original (``director's cut'') version of the Scientific
American article, with more text and inferior graphics. Sci. Am. links etc at
http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/quantum.html
- arxiv_id:
- quant-ph/0101077
- journal_ref:
- Sci.Am.284:68-75,2001; Spektrum Wiss.Dossier 2003N1:6-14,2003
- created:
- 2001-01-17
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