Time symmetry and interpretation of quantum mechanics

O. C. de Beauregard

pp. 35-56

in: Robert S. Cohen, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds), Physical sciences and history of physics, Berlin, Springer, 1984

Abstract

There is something truly paradoxial in quantum mechanics. Physicists know well how to use it for explaining or predicting an ever-increasing harvest of phenomena, some of which are striking, even to the expert. Nevertheless, and norwithstanding the appearance, even recently, of some sedative writings by both physicsts ([1]–[6]) and philosophers ofg science, it is clear that may among the leading theorists ([7]–[9]) and the fervent epistemologists ([10]–[13]) remain unsedated by the tranquilizing sort of remedies and keep suspecting that the problem of prerly interpreting quantum mechanics may well conceal a major enigma.