Contra multos verbos: On scandals of quantum mechanics
Abstract
In 2008 Nico van Kampen wrote in his letter {\it The scandal of quantum mechanics}: ``The scandal is that there are still many articles, discussions and textbooks, which advertise various interpretations and philosophical profundities." Not much has changed since then, while social media have given a platform for more of what Nico would term ``a scandal''. A detailed viewpoint is presented on the status of quantum mechanics, distilled from two decades of work with Armen Allahverdyan and Roger Balian on the dynamical solution of Curie-Weiss models for quantum measurement. It embodies a certain minimal form of the statistical interpretation and stays clear of ontological connections. Along the way, comments on various related subjects, terms and interpretations are given.
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@article{arxiv.2307.11669,
title = {Contra multos verbos: On scandals of quantum mechanics},
author = {Theodorus Maria Nieuwenhuizen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11669},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
22 pages, 4 figures. Contact to contributions of Andrei Khrennikov is made, to whom this essay is dedicated