Interpretation miniatures

DOI10.1142/S0219749917400019zbMATH Open1397.81017arXiv1703.08341MaRDI QIDQ4584339FDOQ4584339

Hrvoje Nikolić

Publication date: 3 September 2018

Published in: International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Most physicists do not have patience for reading long and obscure interpretation arguments and disputes. Hence, to attract attention of a wider physics community, in this paper various old and new aspects of quantum interpretations are explained in a concise and simple (almost trivial) form. About the "Copenhagen" interpretation, we note that there are several different versions of it and explain how to make sense of "local non-reality" interpretation. About the many-world interpretation, we explain that it is neither local nor non-local, that it cannot explain the Born rule, that it suffers from the preferred basis problem, and that quantum suicide cannot be used to test it. About the Bohmian interpretation, we explain that it is analogous to dark matter, use it to explain that there is no big difference between non-local correlation and non-local causation, and use some condensed-matter ideas to outline how non-relativistic Bohmian theory could be a theory of everything. We also explain how different interpretations can be used to demystify the delayed choice experiment, to resolve the problem of time in quantum gravity, and to provide alternatives to quantum non-locality. Finally, we explain why is life compatible with the 2nd law.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08341

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zbMATH Keywords

Copenhagen interpretationinterpretations of quantum mechanicsmany-world interpretationBohmian interpretation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20)

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