Quantum Mechanics for Pedestrians 2 by Jochen Pade

Author:Jochen Pade
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030004675
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

With these questions, issues are touched that go far beyond the physical framework of quantum-mechanical physics in the strict sense—determinism, causality, verifiability, reality, locality and separability. An interpretation of quantum mechanics is expected to respond to these problem areas and to provide coherent answers to the open (physical) questions. In spite of that, one can of course take the view that quantum mechanics is only a collection of rules and calculational prescriptions (albeit very well-functioning) for solving specific problems, and that the questions raised do not affect our obtaining practical results, and are therefore uninteresting.9 This pragmatic or instrumental view works perfectly in practice, but it is for many people a very unsatisfactory and unacceptable idea that such a fundamental theory as quantum mechanics should be only some sort of physical cookbook.10 In this sense, realistic views11 of quantum mechanics do not regard it exclusively as a calculation scheme, but assume that it provides, at least partially, a faithful representation of reality.12 There are different views, which correspondingly show up as different interpretations.

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