The PBR theorem: Whose side is it on?

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2016.11.004MaRDI QIDQ515381zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yemima Ben-Menahem

Publication date 13 March 2017

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

probabilityquantum mechanicsrealismepistemic interpretationinstrumentalism: EinsteinPBR theoremSchrödinger

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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