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The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is the majority
view, held by most physics professors in the country. Since we live in
a democracy, majority views should dominate and the goal of this post
is not to challenge this dominance. The goal of this post is to point
out that the common view that a lot of big names in physics such as
Einstein, Bell, de Broglie, and Schrodinger, disagreed with the
Copenhagen interpretation is a massive understatement. Einstein did
not just disagree with it, he repeatedly said on many occasions that
he "did not take it seriously". "did not take it seriously" is a
euphemism for his thinking that the view currently held by the
majority of professors around the country about one of the most
important theories in physics is (sorry) BS. Bell, they guy who
authored the Bell inequalities which led to the dominance of the
Copenhagen interpretation also did not just disagree with the majority
view... he called it "immoral". "immoral" is a euphemism for (I REALLY
APOLOGIZE)... pornographic. So the goal of the post is to challenge
the "controversy" qualification and claim that it is more like a
scandal than a controversy. Actually more like a family scandal where
in this case Einstein is the drunk grandpa making unacceptable
comments and everyone is trying to hush him (don't take that last
comment seriously).

How is this related to relativity? The majority of physicists do agree
with Einstein on that General Relativity is THE most beautiful theory
of physics ever written. A huge field of research now is of course
that of trying to quantize GR. This, to Einstein would amount to the
most subversive of conspiracies. He gave us the most beautiful theory,
and how do we show are appreciation? By submitting it to what he
thought was the most ridiculous of theories... mindless quantization!
I plead that people trying to mindlessly quantize GR pause and try to
think of a more clever way of joining GR with quantum mechanics one
that would also solve the measurement problem.



I think think is one the clearest, to-the-point posts I have read on this
list, bar none.

Steve Bell