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Discussion, first conclusions, interpretational strategy

In rejecting Bohm's story, and with it all cryptodeterministic interpretations of the quantum-mechanical laws, we are in fact adopting the following interpretational strategy:

We will not assume the truth of any statement about a physical system that is not confirmed by a measurement, and we will not assume the falsity of any statement about a physical system that is not proved false by a measurement. If a statement is neither confirmed nor proved false by a measurement, then it is neither true nor false but meaningless.

 

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Random Sphere II by Eric J. Heller. Here we see random superpositions of waves on the surface of a sphere. Random waves are the paradigm for quantum chaos. "Knowing that chaos is the norm in nature, especially at the level of molecular motion, and knowing that everything is really quantum and that random waves are the quantum manifestation of chaos, it is perhaps not too melodramatic to say that we are made of the stuff you see" here.

 
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