The PBR theorem: Whose side is it on?

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2016.11.004zbMATH Open1357.81006OpenAlexW2561289675MaRDI QIDQ515381FDOQ515381

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

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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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