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When physicists and philosophers realize they share a noble truth

24 Aug 2022 Robert P Crease

Physicists and philosophers of science often appear to operate in different spaces. Robert P Crease reports from a meeting where they were, for once, in the same quantum state

illustration of a door opening between two walls of abstract quantum simulations
When two become one Physicists and philosophers at a recent meeting in Sweden found they had much in common. (Courtesy: iStock/Floriana)
“When I take an action on the world, something genuinely new comes out.” That might sound like a

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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