Necessary Background : Basic ideas in quantum mechanics, Bra-Ket Notation and yeah interest in Interpretation of quantum mechanics,EPR, Wave-function collapse and stuff like that .
Link : From http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209123
Do we really understand quantum mechanics?
Authors: Franck Laloe (LKB – Lhomond)
Journal-ref: American Journal of Physics 69 (2001) 655 – 701
Comment : This is an article which appeared on AJP quite sometime ago. I think it does a good job of talking about various weird things which crop up in quantum theory. It’s quite loooong, but I guess depending on what your background and interests are, you can safely skip a lot of it.
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Posted By : Loganayagam.R.(Tom)
April 21, 2006 at 11:52 am |
Also have a look at an article by Roland Omnes – Consistent Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.
June 22, 2008 at 12:58 am |
I do not think quantum mechanics give any deeper knowlwdge at all. It is solely a procedure for predicting the possibiity of observational results, nothing else.
Therefore it is nothing to understand beyond this. To get an understanding, something entirely new must be developed.