On 03 Apr 2014, at 08:56, LizR wrote:
As I understand it, the "QM interpretation movement" stalled for about 30 years before the MWI came along.
My view on this has changed. I tend to think that the Newton/Huygens debate, which was a debate about the nature of light (particle, for Newton; wave for Huygens), was already a forerunner of the quantum mystery, as I have discovered that both Newton and Huygens were aware that light seemed to have both behavior, and that seemed already contradictory. Of course things get "worse", when much more later de Broglie suggested that all piece of matter, notably the electrons, have that contradictory/paradoxical nature. De Brogie's thesis will be rejected, until Einstein will defend it, and that's a key moment in the birth of QM. We have to wait Born "probability" idea to get the "modern interpretation" problem. Neither Einstein, nor de Broglie will be happy with Born, and the taking at face value of the wave. De Broglie will defend, then abandon, then come back to the pilot wave (an hidden variable theory), but de Broglie will insist that it is a local phenomenon. Einstein, will never admit indeterminacy and non- locality (that he discovered), and well, we don't have to, if we are open to the MWI, which is only QM applied to the couple observer/ observed.
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