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Based on history: -) a (r)evolutionary new idea facilitated by increasingly precise measurement-hardware comes up and a completely new theory/formulation makes
by pointernil 12y ago
Based on history:
-) a (r)evolutionary new idea facilitated by increasingly precise measurement-hardware comes up and a completely new theory/formulation makes more sense to our human minds and allows for better predictions
-) it will turn out that no former serious theory was really completely wrong but only got parts of the new better theory right
-) We are today not accustomed any more to real breakthroughs (some conclude from the lack thereof that we are at an dead-end) but they still could happen; things along the lines of: There is only a constant gravity force! An Einstein-like breaking idea allowing for progress ...
And here is a small issue with the current QM Interpretations: yes, they are very successful yet there is little effort to provide differing descriptions of it allowing to extend the mental pictures used to work with it. 'It's all statistics' is mostly the end of it.
For example: we all know about the experiments about "teleporting" (mostly used by media, not the scientists) over larger and larger distances, up-keeping and proving the entanglement over larger and larger distances... only very seldom those experiments are described as ways to learn about what entanglement really is, what specifically breaks it in what way, what barriers for entanglement there are etc. Because it's all, you know "statistics", collerations in data.
I think there are some lessons to be learned from the WRONG theories in the past about things we don't struggle as much today as with QM... analogies don't have to work, but could provide hints about the ways we humans tend to err when we examine natures reality.