Open AccessQUANTUM META-THEORY (Twisting the Tail of Schrödinger’s Cat)
Author(s) -
Nicholas Rescher
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of mathematical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2630-4600
DOI - 10.18063/ijmp.v1i2.904
Subject(s) - disjoint sets , quantum , odds , schrödinger's cat , appeal , einstein , quantum nonlocality , theoretical physics , hidden variable theory , epistemology , mathematics , physics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , discrete mathematics , law , quantum entanglement , political science , statistics , logistic regression
The problem of Schrödinger’s Cat has figured prominently in the debates about the bearing of quantum physics on our understanding of physical reality. On its basis, various theorists have maintained the quantum physical world exhibits a probabilistically indecisive physical reality. The analysis of the paper that this appeal to quantum reality is methodologically at odds with and disjoint from its underlying approach to quantum theory itself. If there is to be methodological uniformity at this juncture it will have to be along the lines that Einstein always focused—an incomplete hidden factor (perhaps better than “hidden variables”) approach.