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The Copenhagen Confusion

Jim Baggott · 23 Oct 2023

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  1. The Copenhagen interpretation is accused (rightly) of dogmatism, but often for the wrong reasons.
  2. In the Copenhagen interpretation, all measurements are classical and the notion of ‘quantum measurement’ doesn’t arise. There is no such thing as the ‘measurement problem’ in the Copenhagen interpretation.
  3. But we should not overlook the simple fact that all the experimental studies of the last 50 years have failed to establish the superiority of any realist interpretation or extension of quantum mechanics. The matter of interpretation remains undecided.

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