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I was taught that choosing a QM interpretation is a matter of taste. Am I understanding correctly that we do have proposed quantum gravity experiments that can
by skinner_ 3y ago
I was taught that choosing a QM interpretation is a matter of taste. Am I understanding correctly that we do have proposed quantum gravity experiments that can falsify various QM interpretations, it's just that they are all very hard to execute?
- codethief 3y agoI don't know about quantum gravity experiments but there are already (proposed) experiments that don't involve gravity which might help distinguish between different interpretations: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-simple-experiment-could-challenge-standard-quantum-theory/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-simple-exper...
- cornel_io 3y agoThis isn't about a QM interpretation, rather it's about a non-quantum model of gravity with some features that would make it distinguishable in principle from any quantum gravity. Edit: I maybe semi take this back, it actually may be the case that this particular weird model of gravity would provide a way to distinguish between the interpretations of QM because of how grossly it violates the usual assumptions of QM. It seems too implausible for me to really dig into but I don't entirely grok how they propose melding the proposed inherent but non-quantum randomness with the rest of quantum physics in a way that still makes things line up well in the face of observation/collapse (or the equivalent in many-worlds). They might lean enough on assumptions about how that happens to break the observational equivalence?
- bowsamic 3y ago> I was taught that choosing a QM interpretation is a matter of taste You were taught wrong