Quantum Ontologies: Metaphysics in Modern Physics

Abstract

The insurmountable problem in preserving the classical view of correspondence in the face of the evidence disclosed by Bell’s theorem and the recent experiments testing that theorem has been defined by physicist Henry Stapp. The simultaneous correlations of results between space-like separated regions in the Aspect experiments indicate that nonlocality is a fact of nature. However, one cannot posit any causal connection between these regions in the absence of faster-than-light communication. As Stapp put it:

No metaphysics not involving faster-than-light propagation of influences has been proposed that can account for all of the predictions of quantum mechanics, except for the so-called many-worlds interpretation, which is objectionable on other grounds. Since quantum physicists are generally reluctant to accept the idea that there are faster-than-light influences, they are left with no metaphysics to promulgate.¹

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From single Vision and Nnewton’sleep!

William Blake