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What you're asking for doesn't currently exist. At least not any proven ones. There's a dozen new philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics every year
by squeaky-clean 4y ago
What you're asking for doesn't currently exist. At least not any proven ones. There's a dozen new philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics every year but they usually make no new predictions, so there is no way to test if the interpretation is correct.
Most (all?*) interpretations only differ in defining the "wavefunction collapse" and what happens before it. But since measuring anything involves collapsing the wavefunction, it's impossible to measure what happens before that.
We do know, from real-world experiments, that particles cannot actually be moving point-like objects. The most famous example is the double slit experiment where a single particle can cause wavelike interference with itself.
But also we know it isn't exactly a classical wave. We can only measure it as a single point, and it arrives in discrete events, not a continuous transfer of energy like a wave.
So "wavefunction" and the rest of QM lingo is what we have. We don't fully know what those are, but we also know that being just a point or wave in the style of classical physics cannot be correct.
* If an interpretation does make a new prediction that is measurable, I'm not sure if it's considered just an interpretation anymore.