文档介绍：Volume I14A, number 7 PHYSICS LETTERS 10 March 1986
COSMOLOGY AND THE CAUSAL INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
C. DEWDNEY, . HOLLAND, A. KYPRIANIDIS and . VIGIER
Laboratoire de Physique Thborique, CNRS . 769, lnstitut Henri Poincarb,
1 I, rue P. et M. Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex , France
Received 2 May 1985; accepted for publication 3 January 1986
We answer the objections raised recently by Tipler to the trajectory interpretation of quantum mechanics by analyzing in
detail the scattering of a particle from a semi-transparent surface. We conclude that the notion of the "wavefunction of the
universe" poses no particular problems for this interpretation.
Recently, in attempting to give a meaning to the talking of the "quantum world" as if it actually exists
notion of the "wavefunction of the universe", Tipler [ 1] in the usual sense and make no attempt to go beyond
has raised some objections to the de Broglie-Bohm the given level of macroscopic observation. Quantum
causal interpretation of quantum mechanics. As fol- phenomena are then hermetically sealed, each one
lows from a proper reading of the literature, and as forming an unanalyzable whole. Physics no longer con-
we shall show here, his assumptions (for example that cerns "how nature is. Physics concerns what we can
the causal interpretation aims at a purely local, classi-