量子的故事
A Quantum Story
摘要：
在近一个世纪前自洽量子形式主义的发展之后，人们开始探索如何解释形式主义的理论结构。事实上，对量子力学的新解释的追求一直持续到今天。大多数这些努力假设标准量子形式主义的有效性，并继续思考波函数、算子和薛定谔方程的本体性质。本文采取了一种不同的方法，更多的是认识论而不是本体论。我试图给出一个启发式的解释，说明经验原理如何引导我们对世界进行量子力学描述。这种方法的一个结果是，离散量子的概念导致了物质的波动性质和统计行为，而不是相反。最后，我们希望为那些仍然担心此类事情的年长者提供一些安慰，并为量子力学的新手提供对该理论数学抽象且经常令人困惑的方面的物理见解。
英文摘要：
After the development of a self-consistent quantum formalism nearly a century ago there began a quest for how to interpret the theoretical constructs of the formalism. In fact, the pursuit of new interpretations of quantum mechanics persists to this day. Most of these endeavors assume the validity of standard quantum formalism and proceed to ponder the ontic nature of wave functions, operators, and the Schödinger equation. The present essay takes a different approach, more epistemological than ontological. I endeavor to give a heuristic account of how empirical principles lead us to a quantum mechanical description of the world. An outcome of this approach is the suggestion that the notion of discrete quanta leads to the wave nature and statistical behavior of matter rather than the other way around. Finally, the hope is to offer some solace to those older of us who still worry about such things and also to provide the neophyte student of quantum mechanics with physical insight into the mathematically abstract and often baffling aspects of the theory.
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