Experimental life

Heelan on quantum mechanics

Robert P. Crease

pp. 31-41

in: Babette Babich (ed), Hermeneutic philosophy of science, van Gogh's eyes, and God, Berlin, Springer, 2002

Abstract

"Measurement is not an impersonal event that occurs with impartial universality," says Niels Bohr in Michael Frayn's Tony-award winning play Copenhagen. "It's a human act, carried out from a specific point of view in time and space, from the one particular viewpoint of a possible observer."¹

Cited authors

Heelan Patrick A