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phildoe
Jun29-07, 10:10 PM
Im reading Brian Greenes book The Fabric of The Cosmos, Im just past the part about Quantum physics and he just briefly talks about the fact that there are a bunch of interpritations for quantum physics. Does anyone have a link to a list explaining the difrent interpritations?
There is a list of interpretations on Wikipedia. It should be enough to start you off:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_of_quantum_mechanics
Demystifier
Jul2-07, 03:44 AM
For a list of interpretations see also
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=146601
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has some useful pages on specific interpretations:
Copenhagen interpretation:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/
Bohmian mechanics:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/
Everett's relative-state interpretation:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-everett/
The many-worlds interpretation (a type of relative-state interpretation):
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/
The Stanford Encyclopedia doesn't have a page for the transactional interpretation, but here's one by its inventor:
http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/tiqm/TI_toc.html
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