Fleeting Critical Review of the Recent Ontic Breakthrough in Quantum Mechanics

2014/09/22 by Fedor Herbut, Herbut, Fedor
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1409.6290

24 pages, Latex2e

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Abstract

The ontic breakthrough in quantum foundations, consisting of three theo- rems, that of Pusey, Barrett, and Rudolph (PBR), the Colbeck-Renner one, and Hardy's one, is shortly presented, together with various reactions. Some of the ideas involved are explained and/or commented upon. Thus, the wave- function is proved real in three independent ways. Each of the theorems rests on more or less plausible assumptions, but they require more in-depth anal- yses.

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