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[QUOTE="WernerQH, post: 6799644, member: 686891"] I agree that there are loose ends. But I fail to see much progress: Nothing fundamental has changed in the way we do quantum mechanical calculations. Now we have just more no-go theorems, peculiar inequalities, and a proliferation of interpretations, rather than having found the one and only natural interpretation of quantum theory. Most of the work on quantum foundations seems to have explored blind alleys. Much like the search for a mechanical model of the ether, which once was an obvious and important field of research. Maxwell himself might have realized that there is no need for an ether, if he had had more time. For his contemporaries electrodynamics (or rather the ether) had some "weird" features, that took four decades to get rid of. In the case of quantum theory it seems to take significantly longer to remove superfluous metaphysical baggage. I think it is not quantum theory that is weird, but the way it is phrased / taught: The particle concept is problematic, and even talk about [B]quantum[/B] particles doesn't remove its misleading connotations. My view is that quantum theory makes much more sense if it is formulated without reference to "particles" and "measurements". [/QUOTE]
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