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View SchemaQuantum mechanics: Myths and facts
| Authors | H. Nikolic |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0609163 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0609163 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10701-007-9176-y |
| Journal | Found.Phys.37:1563-1611,2007 |
Abstract
A common understanding of quantum mechanics (QM) among students and practical users is often plagued by a number of "myths", that is, widely accepted claims on which there is not really a general consensus among experts in foundations of QM. These myths include wave-particle duality, time-energy uncertainty relation, fundamental randomness, the absence of measurement-independent reality, locality of QM, nonlocality of QM, the existence of well-defined relativistic QM, the claims that quantum field theory (QFT) solves the problems of relativistic QM or that QFT is a theory of particles, as well as myths on black-hole entropy. The fact is that the existence of various theoretical and interpretational ambiguities underlying these myths does not yet allow us to accept them as proven facts. I review the main arguments and counterarguments lying behind these myths and conclude that QM is still a not-yet-completely-understood theory open to further fundamental research.
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"abstract": "A common understanding of quantum mechanics (QM) among students and practical\nusers is often plagued by a number of \"myths\", that is, widely accepted claims\non which there is not really a general consensus among experts in foundations\nof QM. These myths include wave-particle duality, time-energy uncertainty\nrelation, fundamental randomness, the absence of measurement-independent\nreality, locality of QM, nonlocality of QM, the existence of well-defined\nrelativistic QM, the claims that quantum field theory (QFT) solves the problems\nof relativistic QM or that QFT is a theory of particles, as well as myths on\nblack-hole entropy. The fact is that the existence of various theoretical and\ninterpretational ambiguities underlying these myths does not yet allow us to\naccept them as proven facts. I review the main arguments and counterarguments\nlying behind these myths and conclude that QM is still a\nnot-yet-completely-understood theory open to further fundamental research.",
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