[ExI] Is the wave function real?

[John Clark]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:30 PM, <col.hales at gmail.com> wrote:


> ​> ​
>  QM fails to predict the existence of an observer or depict the  mechanism
> underlying it. This is the massive hole, a blind spot culturally
> promulgated that will not go away until we recognise the hole as a
> community.
>
>
​
Unlike Copenhagen the Many World's interpretation has no need to explain
what
​an​
observer or consciousness is because it has nothing to do with either one;
when something changes the universe splits and it makes no difference if
that change occurred in conscious matter observing something or in
nonconscious matter observing nothing. Some say MWI
​ ​
posits an ontologically real
​ ​
Universal Wave Function
​ but I think it would be more accurate to say it claims the multiverse is
ontologically real
​ and the wave function​ is a mathematical description of how the
multiverse evolves that is useful in making calculations.

​It's in ​
Bohm
​'s ​
Pilot
​Wave

​Interpretation ​where the wave is real; that interpretation is
more intuitive and less weird sounding than the others, but there a 2 big
problems with it:


1) Although conceptually simpler it's mathematically more complex, you have
to jump through more hoops to make a calculation. Physics is hard enough as
it is so nobody wants to add a mathematical layer on top of it that is
unnecessary.

2) Nobody has figured out how to get Pilot Waves obey Special Relativity so
they only work in low energy stuff where nothing moves very fast. Paul
Dirac united Quantum Mechanics with Special Relativity as early as 1928,
but he didn't use Pilot Waves. Nobody has yet united
Quantum Mechanics with
​General​
 Relativity
​, we need a quantum theory of gravity but we don't have one.​

 John K Clark
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