文档介绍：Volume 103A, number 4 PHYSICS LETTERS 2 July 1984
COSMOLOGY AND THE PILOT WAVE INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
Frank J. TIPLER
Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Received 29 June 1983
Revised manuscript received 9 January 1984
Bell has recently revived the pilot wave interpretation of de Broglie and Bohm as a possible scheme for interpreting
wave functions in quantum cosmology. I argue that the pilot wave interpretation cannot be applied consistently to systems
whose wave functions split into macroscopically distinguishable states. At some stage the pilot wave interpretation must ei-
ther tacitly invoke wave function reduction in the same manner as the Copenhagen interpretation, or else abandon Iocality
by requiring physical particles to move faster than light. Consequently, the many-worlds interpretation is the only known
realist interpretation of the quantum mechanical formalism which can be extended to quantum cosmology.
Interpreting the wave function is one of the most of the wave function could be found which could re-
difficult problems in quantum cosmology. There are produce all the usual statistical implications of quan-
several reasons for this. First, most interpretations of tum mechanics by invoking only the classical entities
the wave function in non-relativ