Observability, Unobservability and the Copenhagen Interpretation in Dirac's Methodology of Physics

DOI10.12743/quanta.v8i1.93zbMath1484.81008arXiv1911.02426OpenAlexW3098263110MaRDI QIDQ5024651

Andrea Oldofredi, Michael Esfeld

Publication date: 26 January 2022

Published in: Quanta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02426

zbMATH Keywords

P. A. M. Dirac.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

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