Re:Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?
by naasking on Sunday July 10, 2016 @12:28PM
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> It would be like "... because of these logical inconsistencies ... x, y, z quantum mechanics is actually governed by hidden variables, q.e.d"
They already do this. Many philosophers of science pursue realist interpretations of QM though, like de Broglie-Bohm, and so they aren't published very widely. The measurement problem is the serious stumbling block for anti-realist interpretations, and why many such philosophers are realists. The measurement problem just doesn't trouble practicing physicists.
Sounds like a good idea and would like to see, for example, a philosophy professor from some university one day publish a paper in arxiv and turn the world of physics upside down with it. It would be like "... because of these logical inconsistencies ... x, y, z quantum mechanics is actually governed by hidden variables, q.e.d"
I just don't see it in practice though. I think it only seems as if philosophy is deeply entwined with and ready to be exploited to help physics, but it is only because physicists were marginally interested in it and offered some philosophical explanations after the equations and experiments have been proven. I think most of those were mostly for curiosity's sake and were rather secondary to their main achievements.