SMRTR Science & EngineeringAug 10, 2025Quanta Magazine

‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party

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On Helgoland island 100 years ago, Werner Heisenberg created quantum mechanics, a theory that predicts probabilities rather than certainties about particles. A century later, physicists gathering at this birthplace still debate what quantum reality means, with the "measurement problem" unresolved despite the theory's stunning technological successes in atomic clocks and quantum computing.

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