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No-Thing and Causality in Realistic Non-Standard Interpretations of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function: Ex Nihilo Aliquid?
Foundations of Science ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-10 , DOI: 10.1007/s10699-021-09807-z
Gino Tarozzi 1 , Giovanni Macchia 2
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It has been shown that quantum mechanics in its orthodox interpretation violates four different formulations of causality principle endowed with empirical meaning. The present work aims to highlight how even a realistic non-standard interpretation of the theory conflicts with causality in its Cartesian formulation of the principle of the non-inferiority of causes over effects. Such an interpretation, which attributes some form of weak physical reality to the wave function (called empty wave, regarded as a zero-energy wave-like phenomenon), is a sort of precursor of the more recent so-called wavefunction realism. We also discuss a more radical realistic interpretation according to which physical properties can also be assigned to non-metaphysical relative nothing, seen as the simple absence of a particle such as a photon, but not of its corresponding state (no-photon), which is considered real. By interpreting the wave function collapse as a consequence of an interaction with empty waves or of a detection of the no-photon, we will highlight how more real physical effects can derive from lower causes, including relative nothing. Finally, we will show how these interpretations, while violating Cartesian causality in its two variants, do not seem to affect the validity of the principle of a rational explanation that nothing can derive from (absolute) nothing, which does not seem satisfied by the orthodox interpretation.



中文翻译:

量子力学波函数的现实非标准解释中的虚无和因果关系:Ex Nihilo Aliquid?

已经表明,正统解释中的量子力学违反了具有经验意义的因果关系原理的四种不同表述。目前的工作旨在强调即使是对理论的现实非标准解释如何与因果关系在其笛卡尔公式中的因果关系非劣性原则相冲突。这种解释将某种形式的弱物理现实归因于波函数(称为空波,被视为一种零能量波状现象),是最近所谓的波函数现实主义的一种先驱。我们还讨论了一种更激进的现实解释,根据该解释,物理特性也可以分配给非形而上学的相对无,被视为简单的粒子如光子的缺失,但不是其对应状态(无光子),这被认为是真实的。通过将波函数坍缩解释为与空波相互作用或检测到无光子的结果,我们将强调更真实的物理效应是如何从较低的原因(包括相对无)中衍生出来的。最后,我们将展示这些解释如何在违反笛卡尔因果关系的两个变体的同时,似乎并不影响理性解释原则的有效性,即任何事物都不能从(绝对)虚无中衍生出来,正统理论似乎并不满足这一原则。解释。我们将强调如何从较低的原因(包括相对无)中产生更真实的物理影响。最后,我们将展示这些解释如何在违反笛卡尔因果关系的两个变体的同时,似乎并不影响理性解释原则的有效性,即任何事物都不能从(绝对)虚无中衍生出来,正统理论似乎并不满足这一原则。解释。我们将强调如何从较低的原因(包括相对无)中产生更真实的物理影响。最后,我们将展示这些解释如何在违反笛卡尔因果关系的两个变体的同时,似乎并不影响理性解释原则的有效性,即任何事物都不能从(绝对)虚无中衍生出来,正统理论似乎并不满足这一原则。解释。

更新日期:2021-07-12
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