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Scientific Realism “In the philosophy of science, this is the doctrine that we can and should accept well-established scientific...

??? How can the observer's brain solve the Schrödinger equation in real time?

Maybe not an electrostatic field, but shooting an electrodynamic field at somebody's head is possible. It normally won't hurt, and often...

I initially didn't refer to any specific question, but you are right, in the end that was the question MBastieK wanted to discuss. And...

Since I know that you can read German, my discussion on Physikerboard with MBastieK of such a "don't exist" or "no well defined...

Do you think that the "basic principles" of quantum theory have reached their final form? I don't. Ballentine's two postulates depend...

She is unhappy with the way popularizers use the double slit experiment to illustrate wave-particle duality. She seems to try to better...

What text? Please give a specific reference.

It is finished for submission, and I put it online to get some early feedback before actually submitting it (in a few weeks). So the...

I guess you are confusing David Wallace with Wojciech Żurek here.

An electron and a positron meet and become two photons. The system quantum state is conserved and photons are compressible. The reverse...

If that is as far Barandes ever wants to take it, I think we are missing out making the most of the idea he started. I personally see a...

I'm not sure what you mean by this but I don't think I agree, and it would take us too far into philosophy for my comfort.

Yes. Yes, good point: True is used with respect to a specific model. For statements concerning all models, a different terminology is...

Well, we still say that a proposition which is True everywhere is just True (or top ⊤), and a proposition which is True only on the...