The Measurement Problem: A Naive Start

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 Quantum Mechanics is surely hard to grasp at the first instance with the loss of determinism and uncertainty but surely it has to be indeterministic to hold some explanation of the universe.  

The Copenhagen Interpretation tells us that the state of the particle is distributed in the space and when we calculate the probability density of it then we observe the position getting collapsed to one. There is this something that collapses the whole probability to 1.  This something is termed as the measurement problem.


REFERENCES:

1. Statistical Interpretation : Fundamental of Quantum Mechanics

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