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Surveying the Attitudes of Physicists Concerning Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics — mentioned by naasking

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:07:15 GMT

See here for one of the surveys I mentioned: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00676 To "What is the message of the observed violations of Bell's inequality?", a whopping 37% believed that it ruled out hidden variables entirely, even though Bohmian mechanics has been a thing since the the 1950s. 21% said Bohmian mechanics was explicitly incompatible with Bell's theorem in answering the question "What are your reasons for NOT favoring De Broglie - Bohm theory?", which is clear nonsense. There's still a lot of confusion about quantum foundations, even among physicists. The fight over superdeterminism…

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Surveying the Attitudes of Physicists Concerning Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics — mentioned by opaque

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 18:00:09 GMT

> - the Everett interpretation - is the most popular with physicists Source? On the contrary, this survey of physicists https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00676.pdf (Fig 13.) indicates Copenhagen is dominant, followed by no preference, with Everett a long way behind. This is also matches my perception as a former member of the community.

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Surveying the Attitudes of Physicists Concerning Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics — mentioned by pdobsan

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:02:11 GMT

The 2016 survey: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00676.pdf Both surveys are fascinating reads. They clearly give a sense that despite of the spectacular success of QM how far we still are from the final word in that field.

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Surveying the Attitudes of Physicists Concerning Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics — mentioned by parenthephobia

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:11:45 GMT

> Quantum uncertainty is a fundamental consequence of the underlying physics, it has nothing to do with influence from the measurement process. If you can prove that, your Nobel prize awaits. :) The truth is that nobody knows why there is quantum uncertainty. The common belief is that the uncertainty is "real", but non-local hidden variable theories have not been proven to be impossible. (In a recent survey of physicists, 47% favoured explicitly real uncertainty - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00676.pdf)

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Tue, 06 Dec 2016 08:22:50 GMT

Surveying the Attitude of Physicists Concerning Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

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