The PBR theorem: Whose side is it on?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.11.004zbMath1357.81006OpenAlexW2561289675MaRDI QIDQ515381

Yemima Ben-Menahem

Publication date: 13 March 2017

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

realismprobabilityquantum mechanicsSchrödingerepistemic interpretationinstrumentalism: EinsteinPBR theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Physics (00A79)

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