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What makes you think the Copenhagen interpretation is the least weird choice, given all its difficulties?

• maskedSlacker 8y ago
  It's the simplest interpretation of the data we have.
  • danbruc 8y ago
    The many-worlds interpretation is arguably simpler than the Copenhagen interpretation because it gets rid of the collapse postulate. And depending on how literally you take the Copenhagen interpretation, it may not even be self-consistent. At best it provides no explanation how the apparent collapse of the wave function happens, at worst it suggests that the world evolves according to two fundamentally incompatible laws, unitary time evolution and probabilistic projection onto eigenstates during measurement. I don't want to argue for the many-worlds interpretation, I don't really like - and I am aware that this is a somewhat stupid thing to say about a physical theory. But I also have to admit that it makes sense from a point of simplicity and consistency and compares favorable to other interpretations.
  • throwaway37585 8y ago
    How is an interpretation which violates unitary evolution and doesn’t even explain measurement “the simplest”?