On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Eugene Salamin via math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Most physicists go with the Copenhagen interpretation since it appears to be the least problematical. This is the interpretation which posits that the wave function is a probability amplitude, possessing the same kind of reality as classical probability.
All of the interpretations say that, as far as I'm aware. Copenhagen says that the wave function "collapses" randomly when it's observed. The collapse postulate, in my opinion, is clearly wrong. If it actually behaved that way, it would be - The only non-linear evolution in all of quantum mechanics. - The only non-unitary evolution in all of quantum mechanics. - The only non-differentiable (in fact, discontinuous) phenomenon in all of quantum mechanics. - The only phenomenon in all of quantum mechanics that is non-local in the configuration space. - The only phenomenon in all of physics that violates CPT symmetry. - The only phenomenon in all of physics that violates Liouville's Theorem (has a many-to-one mapping from initial conditions to outcomes). - The only phenomenon in all of physics that is acausal / non-deterministic / inherently random. - The only phenomenon in all of physics that is non-local in spacetime and propagates an influence faster than light. (http://lesswrong.com/lw/q6/collapse_postulates/) -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com