Is the moon there when nobody looks? reality and the quantum theory

Physics Today

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1985, Pages 38-47

  David Mermin, N ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 84910015885     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: 19450699     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.880968     Document Type: Article

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