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Empirical reality, empirical causality, and the measurement problem

Foundations of Physics 17 (5):507-529 (1987)

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Indivisibility, Complementarity and Ontology: A Bohrian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.Jairo Roldán-Charria - 2014 - Foundations of Physics 44 (12):1336-1356.details The interpretation of quantum mechanics presented in this paper is inspired by two ideas that are fundamental in Bohr’s writings: indivisibility and complementarity. Further basic assumptions of the proposed interpretation are completeness, universality and conceptual economy. In the interpretation, decoherence plays a fundamental role for the understanding of measurement. A general and precise conception of complementarity is proposed. It is fundamental in this interpretation to make a distinction between ontological reality, constituted by everything that does not depend at all on (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Towards a separable “empirical reality”?Bernard D'Espagnat - 1990 - Foundations of Physics 20 (10):1147-1172.details “To be” or “to be found”? Some contributions relative to this modern variant of Hamlet's question are presented here. They aim at better apprehending the differences between the points of view of the physicists who consider that present-day quantum measurement theories do reach their objective and those who deny they do. It is pointed out that these two groups have different interpretations of the verbs “to be” and “to have” and of the criterion for truth. These differences are made explicit. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 19 citations
Quantum mechanics and the physical reality concept.Horst-Heino von Borzeszkowski & Renate Wahsner - 1988 - Foundations of Physics 18 (6):669-681.details The difference between the measurement bases of classical and quantum mechanics is often interpreted as a loss of reality arising in quantum mechanics. In this paper it is shown that this apparent loss occurs only if one believes that refined everyday experience determines the Euclidean space as the real space, instead of considering this space, both in classical and quantum mechanics, as a theoretical construction needed for measurement and representing one part of a dualistic space conception. From this point of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Spontaneous localizations of the wave function and classical behavior.Andor Frenkel - 1990 - Foundations of Physics 20 (2):159-188.details We investigate and develop further two models, the GRW model and the K model, in which the Schrödinger evolution of the wave function is spontaneously and repeatedly interrupted by random, approximate localizations, also called “self-reductions” below. In these models the center of mass of a macroscopic solid body is well localized even if one disregards the interactions with the environment. The motion of the body shows a small departure from the classical motion. We discuss the prospects and the difficulties of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
On the zigzagging causility model of EPR correlations and on the interpretation of quantum mechanics.O. Costa de Beauregard - 1988 - Foundations of Physics 18 (9):913-938.details Being formalized inside the S-matrix scheme, the zigzagging causility model of EPR correlations has full Lorentz and CPT invariance. EPR correlations, proper or reversed, and Wheeler's smoky dragon metaphor are respectively pictured in spacetime or in the momentum-energy space, as V-shaped, A-shaped, or C-shaped ABC zigzags, with a summation at B over virtual states \|B〉〈B\|. An exact “correspondence” exists between the Born-Jordan-Dirac “wavelike” algebra of transition amplitudes and the 1774 Laplace algebra of conditional probabilities, where the intermediate summations \|B) (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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