Read Chapters 23, 24 and 27 of “WORLDVIEWS” to understand the general framework being described.
Carefully read Chapters 25 and 26. Make certain that you understand the results of the experiments that are summarized in subsection, “Quantum Facts” pages 232 to 239.
It has been asserted that the results of the depicted experiments must be “interpreted” since they cannot be explained using common ideas of particles, macroscopic physical bodies, waves, or, indeed, any commonsense reasoning.
1- Explain, in your own words, how the author of “WORLDVIEWS” describes the “Interpretation” of quantum mechanical accounts of the cited experiments of pages 232-239. Note that an “interpretation” of quantum mechanics is not only an interpretation the results of the experiments, but rather an interpretation of the mathematically successful theoretical explanation.
2- Are the Interpretations of quantum mechanics comprehensible in the sense of being imaginable in terms of ordinary thinking? That is, one can imagine an object moving from one place to another with position and velocity specified at all times. Describe, in your own words, the movement of objects in the double slit experiments. Does you description adequately account for the results of the experiment?
3- What are the conclusions of relativity theory that differ from commonsense understanding of space and time?
Recall that in Chapter 1 of “WORLDVIEWS” a jigsaw puzzle metaphor was employed to depict scientific truth wherein all elements of understanding coherently accord with one another. The common concept of science is that,
(a) there is an overall coherent picture of reality including all of our scientific theories,
(b) that new information may be obtained from observation or experiments that is inconsistent with the overall picture of reality, and
(c), modifications can be made to the theories to include the new information in an improved overall coherent picture of reality.
These ideas are challenged by relativity theory and by quantum theory.
4- Do the facts of quantum and relativistic phenomena mean that the world cannot be coherently understood? If the world, as it is shown to be by modern physics, cannot be coherently understood, what purposes are served by a coherent philosophy of science?
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