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As we already mentioned, there were heated debates about the meaning of quantum mechanics at the time of its inception, in the late 1920s, mostly between Bohr and Einstein. Those debates continue till the present, even though the majority of physicists think that this issue has been settled.
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For other books giving heterodox accounts of the history of quantum mechanics, see Bacciagaluppi and Valentini [7], Beller [17], Cushing [44], Freire [84], and Wick [204]. The book by Jammer [108] is a comprehensive overview of the history of quantum mechanics, from a more or less orthodox viewpoint.
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Albert Einstein, letter to Hedwig Born, 29 April 1924 [35, p. 82].
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See e.g. [36, Sect. 7.1.3] for a discussion of this encounter.
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Here, we replaced the word momentum in the text by velocity, to be consistent with the rest of our text.
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In German, the word is “burlesque”. (Note by J.B.).
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Einstein, letter to Schrödinger, 8 August 1935 [80, p. 78].
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Here EPRB means EPR and Bohm, who reformulated the EPR argument in term of spins [23]. (Note by J.B.).
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“Local magnet setting” means, in our language, the direction in which the spin is measured. (Note by J.B.).
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Here, “determinism” refers to the idea of pre-existing values. (Note by J.B.).
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Reference [9], reprinted as Chap. 2 in [14]. (Note by J.B.).
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See Goldstein [91] for a further discussion of Wigner’s views.
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The interested reader can find some of them in [36, pp. 258–263].
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See Sect. 10.2. (Note by J.B.).
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For a biography of Bohm, see the work of David Peat [146], that we follow here.
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That amendment says, among other things, that: “No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
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This is of course based only on Dresden’s recollections. But we will quote in the next chapter similar recollections of John Clauser. According to the biographer of Bohm, David Peat, Dresden made those remarks also on the floor at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington in May 1989; see [146, p. 340, note 51].
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“Fellow traveller” referred to people close to the Communist Party (Note by J.B.).
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Here Bohm refers of course to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. (Note by J.B.).
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He was probably referring to people around de Broglie, such as Jean-Pierre Vigier, who were working on the de Broglie–Bohm theory (Note by J.B.).
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See [135] for more details.
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Bricmont, J. (2017). A Revised History of Quantum Mechanics. In: Quantum Sense and Nonsense. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65271-9_10
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