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A view from nowhere: quantum reference frames and uncertainty Export

Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 35, No. 2. (June 2004), pp. 195-220.

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Attending carefully to the role that reference frames play in the definition of physical concepts in quantum theory can lead us to a clearer understanding of the uncertainty relations, and the connection that they have with the fact that physical quantities are defined in terms of, and measured relative to, reference frames.


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