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born 1935 United States

N. David Mermin (born March 30, 1935, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA) is Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University

United States
Physicists

Also known as: N. David Mermin

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It is a fundamental quantum doctrine that a measurement does not, in general, reveal a pre-existing value of the measured property.

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be Shut up and calculate!

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.

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