s to happen randomly. There is one explanation for quantum mechanics that avoids the measurement problem altogether but it is even stranger than the Copenhagen interpretation: ‘the many worlds’ view. The idea was first put forward by Hugh Everett in 1957, and it claims measurements are never made, there is n

box? Was the result of the decay measured by the Geiger counter, the cat, or are we waiting for someone to open the box and observe the result? The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics — named after the main center of early quantum theory at the Niels Bohr Institute — says the cat is both alive an

rsity, Yale University, Columbia University, and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. He is a frequent public speaker and has spoken in venues such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street, and the World Economic Forum. HOUSE_OVERSIG

bo effect." It turns out that there have been many trials of the type Temple mentioned. In 2001, the Danish epidemiologist As- bjorn Hróbjartsson, of Copenhagen's Nordic Cochrane Center, along with his colleague Peter Gotzsche, published a systematic review of a hundred and four- teen clinical trials that com

ogress on passing major climate-change bills under Obama's watch. Thanks largely to Obama's public intervention, an agreement was reached at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, but in failing to impose enforceable emissions targets, the meeting was widely considered a failure. This year, Obama abandoned tough

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