History 181B - Class 45

History 181B: Modern Physics

Class 45 (5/12/03)
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Here dwell monsters.

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Past, present, and future: Alternative visions

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David Bohm (1917-1992)

Assignment

J.S. Bell, "Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics," in Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 181-195.

    Bell's first few pages should be familiar. What is unfamiliar about what follows?
    Where did Bell locate the real strangeness of quantum mechanics?
    What alternatives did he offer to the Copenhagen Interpretation?
    Which one do you think he found most appealing?
    Extra: On what basis could one chose among these possible worlds? Is this still physics?