论文标题

天空是蓝色的,其他原因量子力学并不确定证据不足

The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence

论文作者

Wallace, David

论文摘要

我批评了量子测量问题是理论不确定的一个例子:更具体地说,更具体地说,未经修改的,统一的量子形式主义(解释后的Everett)与Bohmian机制以及与GRW或CSL理论这样的动态 - 易流理论都没有区别。我认为,目前尚无对两种理论进行相互作用量子场理论的经验成功的概括,因此明显的不确定因素被一大群量子实验所需要的,这些实验需要其描述中的某个位置。量子实验的类别可重现的任何一个都比普遍认识的要小得多,并且排除了量子力学的许多最具标志性的成功,包括解释了天空颜色的瑞利散射的定量描述。我回应了最近的文献中的各种论点。

I criticize the widely-defended view that the quantum measurement problem is an example of underdetermination of theory by evidence: more specifically, the view that the unmodified, unitary quantum formalism (interpreted following Everett) is empirically indistinguishable from Bohmian Mechanics and from dynamical-collapse theories like the GRW or CSL theories. I argue that there as yet no empirically successful generalization of either theory to interacting quantum field theory and so the apparent underdetermination is broken by a very large class of quantum experiments that require field theory somewhere in their description. The class of quantum experiments reproducible by either is much smaller than is commonly recognized and excludes many of the most iconic successes of quantum mechanics, including the quantitative account of Rayleigh scattering that explains the color of the sky. I respond to various arguments to the contrary in the recent literature.

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