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AGPhil: Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik

AGPhil 5: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics I

AGPhil 5.3: Talk

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 15:00–15:30, HS XVII

Revisiting the Copenhagen Interpretation of QM — •Christopher Tyler — Vision Sciences, City St-George's, University of London

The core synthesis of QM is the Copenhagen Interpretation, whose basic form restricts interpretation solely to the measurement of energetic transition events and the mathematical theory that predicts their frequencies of occurrence, implying that no implicit or hidden variables should be postulated to mediate the theoretical analysis. Yet, the consensus view is that the underlying entities involved local particles with defined trajectories in quantum superposition of probability distributions of multiple possible states resolved by the observation of transition events, in violation of the Copenhagen proscription of such underlying variables.

An alternative view that is rarely considered is that that the mathematical theory, epitomized by the Schroedinger equation, directly describes the deterministic evolution of the overall energy state of the system, implying that *material points are nothing but wave-systems* (Schroedinger, 1926), consistent with the soft energy patterns of the recent Compact Muon Collider results, and that the detection events are not instantaneous state transitions but time-resolved nonlinear interactions of the energy wave with the atomic structure of the absorption matrix. Recognition of the nonlinearity of the detection events can resolve many paradoxical aspects of QM in favor of a deterministic interpretation of the quantum realm.

Keywords: Schroedinger equation; wave function evolution; time-resolved nonlinear interactions; energy function