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Mad Prophet Ludwig5/07/2010 5:12:09 pm PDT

re: #258 freetoken

So, on this comparison of the different interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, where do you fit?

I fall on the none of them, just shut up and calculate school of thought.

What I mean by that is that the model is correct and the equations ar correct and they produce consistent, accurate and reliable results.

Since all of those different interpretations are mathematically and physically indistinguishable, I am equally agnostic to all of them.

IF push comes to shove, I suppose that I am something of a Copenhagen interpretation follower after studying QED. The math of QED says that the electron field intersects our 4-d space time at one point in space time - this lends credence to the picture that the electron is in a definite place even if we can not completely specify it. This also applies to all other field theories.

However, it really does not matter, because we know that QM as currently established can not be the final theory.

So, in the domain of validity that it covers, I shut up and calculate.