On the importance of interpretation in quantum physics: a reply to Elise Crull

DOI10.1007/S10701-015-9902-9MaRDI QIDQ905003zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Antonio Vassallo, Michael Esfeld

Publication date 14 January 2016

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02642

zbMATH Keywords

interpretationquantum mechanicsdecoherence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: Crull (2014) claims that by invoking decoherence it is possible (i) to obviate many ``fine grained issues often conflated under the common designation of measurement problem, and (ii) to make substantial progresses in the fields of quantum gravity and quantum cosmology, without any early incorporation of a particular interpretation in the quantum formalism. We point out that Crull is mistaken about decoherence and tacitly assumes some kind of interpretation of the quantum formalism.

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