The Copenhagen interpretation, associated with Niels Bohr and developed by his group of young geniuses including Heisenberg and Pauli, argued that the atomic world cannot be pictured intuitively and that quantum mechanics can only provide predictions about measurement results, not descriptions of reality itself.
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“[7:39] the Copenhagen picture which is a view of reality they argued for was forced upon us by the mathematics by the theory uh and by experimental evidence which suggested that the atomic world wasn't something that we could picture...It was maths. It was abstract. What quantum mechanics could give you, they argued, was predictions about the results of measurements”
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