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理论伪物理学的终结在望了吗?

Is the end in sight for theoretical pseudophysics?

Ulrich Mohrhoff

摘要:

在当代物理学的形式主义中编码了什么本体论信息(如果有的话)的问题,至少可以说是有争议的。造成这种状况的原因是心理和神经生物学的。视觉世界是由我们的头脑构建的,这个过程使我们倾向于空间、时间和物质的概念,这些概念与量子世界的时空和物质方面不一致。在本章的第一部分中,后者是从量子形式主义中提取出来的。一个世界的本质是从根本上和不可约的概率算法描述的确定。第二部分讨论了导致我们的“自然”空间、时间和物质概念与量子世界相应方面不匹配的神经生物学过程。这些自然的概念产生了伪问题,这些伪问题挫败了我们对量子力学的本体论意义的尝试。如果我们抛弃某些心理上有动机但物理上没有根据的假设(特别是我们固执地坚持把经典物理学内在的、完全不同的时空背景强加给量子世界),我们就能够看到为什么我们的基本物理理论是一种概率算法,并解决剩下的解释问题。

英文摘要:

The question of what ontological message (if any) is encoded in the formalism of contemporary physics is, to say the least, controversial. The reasons for this state of affairs are psychological and neurobiological. The processes by which the visual world is constructed by our minds, predispose us towards concepts of space, time, and substance that are inconsistent with the spatiotemporal and substantial aspects of the quantum world. In the first part of this chapter, the latter are extracted from the quantum formalism. The nature of a world that is fundamentally and irreducibly described by a probability algorithm is determined. The neurobiological processes responsible for the mismatch between our "natural" concepts of space, time, and substance and the corresponding aspects of the quantum world are discussed in the second part. These natural concepts give rise to pseudoproblems that foil our attempts to make ontological sense of quantum mechanics. If certain psychologically motivated but physically unwarranted assumptions are discarded (in particular our dogged insistence on obtruding upon the quantum world the intrinsically and completely differentiated spatiotemporal background of classical physics), we are in a position to see why our fundamental physical theory is a probability algorithm, and to solve the remaining interpretational problems.

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