The problem of the interpretation of quantum theory

Abstract

The interpretation of physics is a philosophical task. It is a supplementary task, such as we are confronted with it. We have already indicated this in the choice of words in the titles of the first and third part of the book:“The Unity of Physics” but “On the interpretation of Physics. The attempt to reconstruct the unity of physics is in itself already to some extent supplementary. But it is guided by the ideal of completion, as expressed by the concept of a closed theory. Such a theory has a mathematically infinite, empirically open number of possible consequences, but its foundations are assumed to be formulated by a finite, small number of postulates. The interpretation of the theory, however, embedding it in what we call our world view, the modification of this world view by the theory–this is a task whose possible ramifications we initially do not even know. We can only consider contributions to it.