SCHRODINGER'S CAT-IN-THE-BOX WITH THE COPENHAGEN ONTOLOGY.

This paper focuses on the problems of indeterminism and subjectivism inherent in quantum physics. Schrödinger's thought experiment reinvigorates an observer-created reality, enunciated in the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Schrodinger's experiment remains compatible with the Copenha...

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Publicado en:Annales Philosophici no. 5; pp. 29 - 37
Autor principal: Essien, Ephraim Stephen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Oradea Publishing House 2012
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Sumario:This paper focuses on the problems of indeterminism and subjectivism inherent in quantum physics. Schrödinger's thought experiment reinvigorates an observer-created reality, enunciated in the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Schrodinger's experiment remains compatible with the Copenhagen ontology, given the commonness of their functions: indeterminism, subjectivism, uncertainty. Indeterminism as determinism is an ontological problem, and here in Quantum Mechanics, we see an interface of metaphysics in physics. In this metaphysics in physics, the thing is not there save the observer observes it. Not just that! What the observer observes may not be definite after all! Idealism in Science?