Did bohr succeed in defending the completeness of quantum mechanics?
This study posits that Bohr failed to defend the completeness of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality against Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen’s (EPR) paper. Although there are many papers in the literature that focus on Bohr’s argument in his reply to the EPR paper, the purpose of the curr...
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| description | This study posits that Bohr failed to defend the completeness of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality against Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen’s (EPR) paper. Although there are many papers in the literature that focus on Bohr’s argument in his reply to the EPR paper, the purpose of the current paper is not to clarify Bohr’s argument. Instead, I contend that regardless of which interpretation of Bohr’s argument is correct, his defense of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality remained incomplete. For example, a recent trend in studies of Bohr’s work is to suggest he considered the wave-function description to be epistemic. However, such an interpretation cannot be used to defend the completeness of the quantum mechanical description. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-18a8e17bb7b643df8ec79d1dd376957b2022-12-22T03:43:49ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology1414-42471808-17112020-04-01241516310.5007/1808-1711.2020v24n1p5134158Did bohr succeed in defending the completeness of quantum mechanics?Kunihisa Morita0Osaka UniversityThis study posits that Bohr failed to defend the completeness of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality against Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen’s (EPR) paper. Although there are many papers in the literature that focus on Bohr’s argument in his reply to the EPR paper, the purpose of the current paper is not to clarify Bohr’s argument. Instead, I contend that regardless of which interpretation of Bohr’s argument is correct, his defense of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality remained incomplete. For example, a recent trend in studies of Bohr’s work is to suggest he considered the wave-function description to be epistemic. However, such an interpretation cannot be used to defend the completeness of the quantum mechanical description.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/61743foundation of quantum mechanicsbohreinstein-podolsky-rosen |
| spellingShingle | Kunihisa Morita Did bohr succeed in defending the completeness of quantum mechanics? Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology foundation of quantum mechanics bohr einstein-podolsky-rosen |
| title | Did bohr succeed in defending the completeness of quantum mechanics? |
| title_full | Did bohr succeed in defending the completeness of quantum mechanics? |
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| title_short | Did bohr succeed in defending the completeness of quantum mechanics? |
| title_sort | did bohr succeed in defending the completeness of quantum mechanics |
| topic | foundation of quantum mechanics bohr einstein-podolsky-rosen |
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