Copenhagen Interpretation

Niels Bohr / Werner Heisenberg · 1927 · Physics

Core Mechanism

Wave function collapse as unexamined postulate — measurement treated as primitive

Kernel Engagements

Works within the kernel’s native ground; the structural gap is present but never encountered.

Evidence

Copenhagen brackets the measurement problem by methodological convention — treating wave function collapse as an unproblematic postulate rather than deriving it from the Schrödinger equation.

Territory

Treats measurement as primitive; wave function collapse bracketed as definitional. Comma never encountered structurally. "Shut up and calculate" is the most complete Infrastructure statement in the physics corpus.

Constitutive depth

IS: The wave function is the invisible substrate of all quantum calculation. Copenhagen does not encounter the comma — it brackets it by convention.

Legibility

Concealed: The measurement problem is structurally present but hidden behind the collapse postulate. Practitioners do not see the comma in their daily practice.

Works within the kernel’s native ground; the structural gap is present but never encountered.

Evidence

Copenhagen brackets the measurement problem by methodological convention — treating wave function collapse as an unproblematic postulate rather than deriving it from the Schrödinger equation.

Territory

Treats measurement as primitive; wave function collapse bracketed as definitional. Comma never encountered structurally. "Shut up and calculate" is the most complete Infrastructure statement in the physics corpus.

Constitutive depth

IS: The wave function is the invisible substrate of all quantum calculation. Copenhagen does not encounter the comma — it brackets it by convention.

Legibility

Concealed: The measurement problem is structurally present but hidden behind the collapse postulate. Practitioners do not see the comma in their daily practice.