On Weak Values and Feynman's Blind Alley

Feynman famously recommended accepting the basic principles of quantum mechanics without trying to guess the machinery behind the law. One of the corollaries of the Uncertainty Principle is that the knowledge of probability amplitudes does not allow one to make meaningful statements about the past o...

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Main Author: Dmitri Sokolovski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Quanta 2023-11-01
Series:Quanta
Online Access:http://quanta.ws/ojs/index.php/quanta/article/view/249