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Letter: Can new maths help us with quantum collapse?

Published 16 April 2025

From John Bell, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK

Your article on the mathematical breakthrough bringing together three sets of equations relating to particles and fluids ends with a line saying that the implications of the work aren’t yet understood. With the techniques being grounded in Richard Feynman’s work on quantum field theory, and with the obvious parallels with particles vs fluids and waves, I can’t help but wonder whether this work might help model the turning point in quantum physics, when wave functions collapse and classical physics emerges.(22 March, p 12)

Issue no. 3539 published 19 April 2025

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