Popper ’ s Propensity Interpretation and Heisenberg ’ s Potentia Interpretation — A comparative assessment
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Quantum mechanically, there is a key difference. Consider the quantum mechanical equivalent of coin-tossing, namely letting an electron (or photon) “go through” a two-slit screen, with two detectors placed close to the screen on the other side. One and only one of the detectors will always fire. The top (bottom) detector firing would be the quantum mechanical equivalent of heads (tails). Quantum theory gives the probability for either of these localized detection events to occur as
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تاریخ انتشار 2005