Kong Otto C W
Department of Physics and Center for High Energy and High Field Physics, National Central University, Chung-li 32054, Taiwan.
Stud Hist Philos Sci. 2022 Apr;92:186-195. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.02.002. Epub 2022 Feb 24.
The implications of the physical theory of quantum mechanics on the question of realism is much a subject of sustaining interest, while the background questions among physicists on how to think about all the theoretical notion and 'interpretation' of the theory remains controversial. Through a careful analysis of the theoretical notions with the help of modern mathematical perspectives, we give here a picture of quantum mechanics, as the basic theory for 'nonrelativistic' particle dynamics, that can be seen as being as much about the physical reality as classical mechanics itself. The key is to fully embrace the noncommutativity of the theory and see it as a notion about the reality of physical quantities. Quantum reality is then just a noncommutative version of the classical reality.
量子力学的物理理论对实在论问题的影响一直是备受关注的主题,而物理学家们关于如何思考该理论的所有理论概念和“诠释”的背景问题仍存在争议。借助现代数学视角对理论概念进行仔细分析后,我们在此给出一幅量子力学的图景,作为“非相对论性”粒子动力学的基础理论,它可以被视为与经典力学本身一样关乎物理实在。关键在于充分接受该理论的非对易性,并将其视为关于物理量实在性的一个概念。那么量子实在就只是经典实在的一个非对易版本。