English

Pure quantum interpretations are not viable

Quantum Physics 2015-07-15 v4

Abstract

Pure interpretations of quantum theory, which reject the classical part of the Copenhagen interpretation without adding new structure to it's quantum part, are not viable. This is a consequence of a non-uniqueness result for the canonical operators.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0903.4657,
  title  = {Pure quantum interpretations are not viable},
  author = {I. Schmelzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4657},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Added some new arguments, rewritten others

R2 v1 2026-06-21T12:44:58.781Z