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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Epistemic Approach to Quantum Mechanics
Despite all the badminton we've done at the Copenhagen interpretation, it's sort of comeback or at least versions of it have come back in the form of these epistemic approaches to quantum mechanics. Epistemic meaning that the wave function is about our knowledge about the world rather than a thing in the world. And that's certainly endemic. But I wouldn't say that the people who support these interpretations are all people who say, no,. quantum mechanics is really only about the outcomes of experiments and we shouldn't be doing more than that as physicists.
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