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No. An interpretation is just that. No matter what interpretation you use, the experimental measurement results are the same. If they don't give the same resul
by tagrun 7y ago
No. An interpretation is just that. No matter what interpretation you use, the experimental measurement results are the same.
If they don't give the same results, it won't be interpretations: you'd have two competing theories and one of them will be wrong since it can be ruled out experimentally.
This is also why majority of physicists don't care much about such philosophical aspects. You can argue that they should, are there are a few people working on foundations of quantum mechanics, but most physicists (including me) see it as semantics and choose to spend their time on practical physics. At least that's what my field (condensed matter physics) is about, which also encompasses the realization of these quantum computers. You can't change the conductivity of a material, or the measured charge state of a transmon qubit by using a different interpretation.
- trhway 7y ago>No matter what interpretation you use, the experimental measurement results are the same Sorry, no. Bell experiments do produce different measurements for different interpretations thus ruling one of them true. As it stands now they seems to confirm Copenhagen for pretty much everyone.
- tagrun 7y agoThen I don't know which crackpot "interpretation" (that doesn't even agree with the experiments, unlike MWI etc) you are referring to, but you can rest assured that nothing in these experiments or condensed matter physics in general depend on it.
- trhway 7y agohttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.675.655&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.675... https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/ballentine/AJP72.pdf https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/... "Ensemble interpretations of quantum theory contend that the wave function describes an ensemble of identically prepared systems. They are thus in contrast to “orthodox” or “Copenhagen” interpretations, in which the wave function provides as complete a description as is possible of an individual system." Bell experiments seems to almost everyone to rule it out, while myself unfortunately, as i really want to wholeheartedly jump on magical bandwagon of superposition and quantum computing, see gigantic holes in those experiments which allow all those other, compatible among themselves interpretations - local realism, pilot wave and ensemble - in and actually pretty much rule Copenhagen out.
- maverick_iceman 7y agoI want to thank you for providing such knowledgeable and lucid answers to the questions in this thread.