Copenhagen Interpretation, The
Original title: The Copenhagen Interpretation
Duration: 58’
Producer: Flemming Arentoft
Director: Lars Becker-Larsen
Participant: Lars Becker-Larsen
Company: Arentoft Film ApS, DFI
Scientific field: Physics
Year: 2005
Country: Denmark
The Copenhagen Interpretation is Bohr’s controversial philosophical theory that we can only see the world when we measure it and not the way nature really is. This runs counter to Einstein’s classic image that everything is determined by cause and effect.
Ever since the Copenhagen Interpretation was mooted in 1927 its thinking has caused controversy. Like many of his colleagues then and now, Albert Einstein could not live with the idea of the world being so crazy and random.
Copenhagen Interpretation, The
