The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human
consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established …

The Tum of the Tide During centuries physicists were supposed to be studying the physical
world. Since the turn of the century this assumption has often been challenged as naive: it …

Despite its enormous practical success, quantum theory is so contrary to intuition that, even
after 45 years, the experts themselves still do not all agree what to make of it. The area of …

Recently there has been a spate of articles, reviews, and letters in Physics Today promoting
various “interpretations” of quantum theory (see March 1998, page 42; April 1998, page 38; …

Effective teaching does not simply teach students what is correct—it also insures that
students do not believe what is incorrect. The study of student misconceptions in introductory …

no comprehensive scholarly study of the conceptual development of quantum mechanics
has heretofore appeared. The popular or semiscientific publications available hardly skim …

IN a recent article by A. Einstein, B. Podolsky and N. Rosen, which appeared in the Physical
Review of May 15, and was reviewed in NATURE of June 22, the question of the …

© 1992 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC with these issues. Albert Einstein, who in 1905
showed how Planck's electro magnetic quanta, now called photons, could explain the …

The radical novelty of quantum mechanics almost immediately brought a conflict with the
previously admitted corpus of classical physics, and this went as far as rejecting the age-old …

In May 1935, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen published2 an argument
that quantum mechanics fails to provide a complete description of physical reality. Today, 50 …