An Argument Against the Realistic Interpretation of the Wave Function

作者：Rovelli Carlo^*

来源：Foundations of Physics, 2016, 46(10): 1229-1237.

DOI：10.1007/s10701-016-0032-9

• Time reversal invariance
• Realism
• Wave function

Testable predictions of quantum mechanics are invariant under time reversal. But the evolution of the quantum state in time is not so, neither in the collapse nor in the no-collapse interpretations of the theory. This is a fact that challenges any realistic interpretation of the quantum state. On the other hand, this fact raises no difficulty if we interpret the quantum state as a mere calculation device, bookkeeping past real quantum events.

• 出版日期2016-10