Relational Quantum Mechanics is About Facts, Not States: A Reply to Pienaar and Brukner
Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli
Abstract
In recent works, Časlav Brukner and Jacques Pienaar have raised interesting objections to the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics. We answer these objections in detail and show that, far from questioning the viability of the interpretation, they sharpen and clarify it.
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Interpretations of quantum mechanicsInterpretation (philosophy)Minority interpretations of quantum mechanicsPhilosophy of scienceEpistemologyTheoretical physicsConsistent historiesPhilosophyCopenhagen interpretationRelational quantum mechanicsQuantum mechanicsPhysicsEPR paradoxQuantumMathematicsQuantum processQuantum dynamicsQuantum entanglementLinguisticsQuantum Mechanics and ApplicationsPhilosophy and History of ScienceAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics