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quantum mechanics interpretation
subject			fact

quantum mechanics interpretation	is a kind of quantum mechanics
quantum mechanics	has applicability microscopic scales of atoms and subnuclear particles but not restricted to this
	has constraint certain quantities (e.g. energy, angular momentum, light) can only exist in certain discrete amounts, called quanta.
	has implication physical systems must be described in terms of probabilities.
	has equation Any physical system, such as an atom, may be viewed as existing as a combination of its possible states, each of which has a certain probability.
	has synonym quantum theory
	has discoverer Planck
theory	has validity correct or incorrect with caveats
	has author or reasearch group
	has domain a field of research
	has date or a range of dates for which the theory was active

Kinds of quantum mechanics interpretation :

• Copenhagen interpretation (3 facts) - The view of quantum mechanics holding that prior to the measurement, a system has no physical existence and is describable only in terms of the probability of each possible result of a measurement. After a measurement the physical system exists in one and only one of its possible states.
• many-worlds interpretation (4 facts) - The view of quantum mechanics holding that a physical system simultaneously exists in all of its possible states prior to and after a measurement of the system. In the many-worlds interpretation, each of these simultaneous existences is part of a separate universe. Every time we make a measurement of a physical system and find it to be in a particular one of its possible states, our universe branches off to one of the universes in which the system is in that particular state at that moment. The system, however, continues to exist in its other possible states, in parallel universes.