The Emergence of Bohr’s Notion of Complementarity and its Expanse Outside the Physics
Keywords:
Complementarity, Duality, Quantum Postulate, Wave, ParticAbstract
With the notion of complementarity, Bohr tried to express the duality between concepts or statements that are different in meaning, mutually exclusive and together constitute a complete description of a phenomenon. Bohr derived this notion from the quantum postulate and applied it to the wave-particle duality and the space-temporal and causal descriptions. Moreover, he applied it to other subjects, different from Physics, such as Psychology, Biology, and Anthropology.
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