## Metadata - Author: [[Philip Ball]] - Full Title: Beyond Weird - Category: #books ## Highlights - grant the rules of quantum mechanics and you must get quantization, but the reverse is not true. Quantization of energy could, in itself, conceivably be a phenomenon of classical physics. ([Location 342](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07H9HNDYL&location=342)) - The wavefunction is not a description of the entity we call an electron. It is a prescription for what to expect when we make measurements on that entity. ([Location 506](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07H9HNDYL&location=506)) - The Copenhagen Interpretation, in contrast, insists that the system has no particular property or character until we make the measurement. In an extreme view, this implies that there is no such thing as the ‘system’ at all until we make the measurement. ([Location 914](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07H9HNDYL&location=914)) - As Roland Omnès says, quantum physics involves ‘an experimental physics whose modes of reasoning superbly ignore the interdictions pronounced by the theory it is supposed to check’. ([Location 964](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07H9HNDYL&location=964))