On the Wages of Copenhagen's Non-Classical Sins
| Scientific Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | On the Wages of Copenhagen\'s Non-Classical Sins |
| Read in full | Link to paper |
| Author(s) | Evert Jan Post |
| Keywords | Copenhagen, period integrals, non-classical, pre-metric |
| Published | 2004 |
| Journal | Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie |
| Volume | 29 |
| Number | 4 |
| No. of pages | 9 |
| Pages | 651-659 |
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Abstract
This paper was also published in the Proceedings of the NPA, V1, N1, pp. 85-88 (2004).
This paper is a carefully-documented proposition to discontinue currently still standard references to the conceptual images of the Copenhagen interpretation, because they are at variance with the reality presently confronting the world of physics. The Aharonov-Bohm and Ampere-Gauss integrals of quantum interferometry frame now gain an independent fundamental image in light of their potential to assume period integral status. The ensuing two-tier aspect of quantum theory then grants a conceptual perspective that permits dispensing with some of the non-classical wages of sin of standard one-tier presentations. The suggested changes interfere little with standard mathematical procedures of operation, but they do affect decisions as to when to use Schrodinger-Dirac tools pertaining to randomized ensembles versus period integral tools for single systems or ordered ensembles thereof behaving as single systems.