Re:Best attempts so far to skin Schrödinger’s cat (2016)
by n4r9 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @03:58AM
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Warning: you shouldn't be too quick to extrapolate anything about general attitudes in quantum foundations towards various interpretations from this "snapshot" poll. There exist at least two other polls I know of with very different results[0,1]. Interesting quote from one of the abstracts:
> the results do strongly suggest several interesting cultural facts -- for example, that there exist, within the broad field of "quantum foundations", sub-communities with quite different views, and that (relatedly) there is probably even significantly more controversy about several fundamental issues than the already-significant amount revealed in the earlier poll.
Matt Leifer has a quantum foundations blog, and is one of the most impartial voices that I know of. He has written up his opinion on these "snapshots" [2], making the
amusingly astute observation
> What we can conclude from this is that people who went to a meeting
organized by Zeilinger are likely to have views similar to Zeilinger.
> the results do strongly suggest several interesting cultural facts -- for example, that there exist, within the broad field of "quantum foundations", sub-communities with quite different views, and that (relatedly) there is probably even significantly more controversy about several fundamental issues than the already-significant amount revealed in the earlier poll.
Matt Leifer has a quantum foundations blog, and is one of the most impartial voices that I know of. He has written up his opinion on these "snapshots" [2], making the amusingly astute observation
> What we can conclude from this is that people who went to a meeting organized by Zeilinger are likely to have views similar to Zeilinger.
[0] arXiv:1303.2719
[1] arXiv:1306.4646
[2] http://mattleifer.info/tag/survey/