brockm on Nostr: Well, if you take the wave function seriously, which you probably should, you have to ...
Well, if you take the wave function seriously, which you probably should, you have to answer the question: what causes the spontaneous collapse of the wave function? This is serious question. Why does the probability function instantaneously collapse, apparently randomly, to a fixed point in space?
The Copenhagen interpretation is simply just not that satisfying of an answer, and Feynman's famous retort that people demanding one just "shut up an calculate" has left a huge hole in our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature.
What you're saying here is basically "why doesn't spontaneous collapse of the wave function satisfy you?" And my answer is: because spontaneous collapse is obviously wrong!
The Copenhagen interpretation is simply just not that satisfying of an answer, and Feynman's famous retort that people demanding one just "shut up an calculate" has left a huge hole in our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature.
What you're saying here is basically "why doesn't spontaneous collapse of the wave function satisfy you?" And my answer is: because spontaneous collapse is obviously wrong!