Open AccessTruth by fiat
Author(s) -
Álvaro Balsas,
A. L. L. Videira
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
revista brasileira de história da ciência
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2176-3275
pISSN - 1983-4713
DOI - 10.53727/rbhc.v6i2.253
Subject(s) - instrumentalism , epistemology , interpretation (philosophy) , expansive , dissenting opinion , minority interpretations of quantum mechanics , rendering (computer graphics) , theoretical physics , philosophy , quantum , physics , computer science , law , political science , quantum mechanics , linguistics , artificial intelligence , compressive strength , thermodynamics , quantum process , quantum dynamics
The purpose is, first, to review the occurrences which led to the acceptance by the bulk of physicists of the instrumentalist approach to quantum mechanics (QM) as the only one worth considering as truly rendering nature at the atomic level. Formulated soon after the creation of QM it outright refused the local realist interpretation. Next, to bring out the successive waves of dissenting voices, which still go on unabated. Finally, to recall that – in spite of the pervading dominance of the Copenhagen reading of quantum phenomena – the manifold questions concerning the interpretation of QM continue to be the subject-matter of forceful interventions claiming that the foundational basis of QM is far from being definitely closed.