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Is this a "mainstream" view in academic quantum mechanics? It seems so much more "modern" than what I learned.
by tbabb 9y ago
Is this a "mainstream" view in academic quantum mechanics? It seems so much more "modern" than what I learned.
- n4r9 9y agoWheeler was certainly visionary. The most faithful contemporary worldview is probably the "QBist" interpretation [0-2] espoused by Chris Fuchs (who studied under Wheeler), Ruediger Schack, Carlton Caves, David Mermin and others. It's growing in popularity but is not mainstream. [0] https://www.wired.com/2015/06/private-view-quantum-reality/ https://www.wired.com/2015/06/private-view-quantum-reality/ [1] https://www.nature.com/news/physics-qbism-puts-the-scientist-back-into-science-1.14912 https://www.nature.com/news/physics-qbism-puts-the-scientist... [2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-bayesian/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-bayesian/