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Comment author: [deleted] 15 May 2012 09:02:57PM 9 points [-]

the Copenhagen interpretation revered in the mainstream

Is it? I think that the most widely accepted interpretation among physicists is the shut-up-and-calculate interpretation.

Comment author: Cthulhoo 16 May 2012 11:14:36AM *  3 points [-]

Is it? I think that the most widely accepted interpretation among physicists is the shut-up-and-calculate interpretation.

There are quite a few people that actively do research and debate on QM foundations, and, among that group, there's honestly no preferred interpretation. People are even looking for alternatives that bypass the problem entirely (e.g. GRW. The debate is fully open, at the moment.

Outside of this specific field, yes, it's pretty much shut-up-and-calculate.

Comment author: Thomas 15 May 2012 09:16:53PM 1 point [-]

Yes, doing the calculation and getting the right result is worth of many interpretations, if not.all of them together.

Besides, interpretations usually give you more than the truth. What is awkward.

Comment author: vi21maobk9vp 17 May 2012 08:27:56AM *  -1 points [-]

Unfortunately, in some cases it is not clear what exactly you should calculate to make a good prediction. Penrose interpretation and MWI can be used to decide - at least sometimes. Nobody has (yet) reached the scale where the difference would be easily testable, though.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 18 May 2012 05:43:23PM 0 points [-]

The wikipedia page on the Copenhagen Interpretation says:

According to a poll at a Quantum Mechanics workshop in 1997,[13] the Copenhagen interpretation is the most widely-accepted specific interpretation of quantum mechanics, followed by the many-worlds interpretation.[14] Although current trends show substantial competition from alternative interpretations, throughout much of the twentieth century the Copenhagen interpretation had strong acceptance among physicists. Astrophysicist and science writer John Gribbin describes it as having fallen from primacy after the 1980s.[15]