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The physicist Richard Feynman (1988 stated that quantum theory can be used to explain all of our physical world except gravity. It has been proved over and over to be a successful theory. However, when it comes to understanding what quantum theory says about our world, he acknowledged that “my physics students don’t understand it ... I don’t understand it. No-body does” (p. 9).

There is no agreement in the scientific community as to what is really going on in the microscopic world of quantum mechanics (Herbert, 1985). There is agreement with the results of quantum experiments and observations. The problem comes when those results are interpreted. Herbert (1985) lists eight different interpretations of our world, all based on the same experimental results:

1. The Copenhagen Interpretation #1. There is no deep reality. Our physical world is real enough, but its quantum foundations are not real (Segrè, 1980). This interpretation was favored by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.

2. The Copenhagen Interpretation #2. Reality is created by observation. The world has a phenomenal reality, but we each create our own reality through our observations (Wolf, 1984). John Wheeler’s famous maxim states that “no elementary phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon” (Herbert, 1985, p. 18.

3. The Undefined Wholeness Interpretation. Quantum wholeness suggests that everything is inherently interconnected. This connection is unaffected by time or space. Adherents include David Bohm, Fritjof Capra, and Walter Heitler.

4. The Many-Worlds Interpretation. Reality in an increasing number of parallel worlds. Every possible outcome of every decision actually occurs, but it does so by splitting off into new, parallel universes (Wolf, 1988. Formulated in 1957, by Hugh Evertt, one of its chief adherents today is Paul Davies (1980).

5. The Quantum Logic Interpretation. The world obeys a reasoning which is non-human. In the same way that Einstein’s relativity requires a new way of logic from the old Newtonian universe, so the quantum world requires a new logic in order for us to understand it. Its chief adherent today is quantum theorist David Finkelstein.

6. The Neorealism Interpretation. The world is composed of ordinary objects and is ruled by logic and reason and order. The champions of this view were several pioneers in quantum mechanics including Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and Prince Louis de Broglie.

7. The Consciousness Creates Reality Interpretation. In this view, it is not enough to observe phenomena, such as a camera or recording device, but the observer must be conscious. Adherents include Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner and the famous mathematician John von Neumann.

8. The World as Duality Interpretation. The world consists of potentials and actualities. Our everyday world is real, but atoms and subatomic particles only exist in the form of possibilities. This interpretation was described by Werner Heisenberg.

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