How many interpretations of QM do you speak?

[Sambuco]

It is interesting that the first time we realized we don't live in a Kolmogorovian universe was 24 years before Kolmogorov formulated his axioms.

Nothing that can't be fixed with a pinch of retrocausality

Lucas.

 

[WernerQH]

Why is the electron forced to reappear with such frequency? Is it due to $\frac{\hbar}{mc^2} \sim 10^{-21} \text{ s}$?

Yes. In his book "The Road to Reality" Penrose offers a similar picture: a zig-zag-line. The velocity operator has eigenvalues $\pm c$. For an electron "at rest" the average speed is zero, but because spin is conserved its helicity is constantly flipping from right-handed to left-handed and vice versa. Was once known as "Zitterbewegung".

 

[A. Neumaier]

for practical purposes, "shut up and calculate" has proven extremely useful.

...because after calculation, every user (as long as shutting up = not using the word 'interpretation' ) is allowed to interpret the results as fits the context, unconstrained by the formal (and often too rigid) demands of an interpretation.

 

[Demystifier]

A particle is an irreducible representation of the Poincaré group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics_and_representation_theory

No, a particle is a click in a particle detector.
Now seriously, the word "particle" has many different meanings in physics, so picking one of them and claiming that only this meaning is the "right" one is, well, rather narrow minded.

 

[javisot]

I still think that "shut up and calculate", following the language analogy, is more akin to communicating through noises and gestures than to English.

 

[martinbn]

I still think that "shut up and calculate", following the language analogy, is more akin to communicating through noises and gestures than to English.

I'd say it is just plain language without any similies, methaphors and other figures of speech. Say the way Dirac spoke English compare to the way a poet uses English.