报告时间：11月19日（星期六）上午10：30
报告地点：苏州大学本部红楼217会议室
报告题目：A Particle Ontological Interpretation of the Wave Function
报告人：Dr. Shan Gao, associate professor, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Philosophy at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his PH.D. in philosophy of Physics from at the University of Sydney in 2012. He is the executive editor of International Journal of Quantum Foundations.
Abstract: The ontological meaning of the wave function is an important problem in the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The conventional view is wave function realism, according to which the wave function represents a real physical field in a fundamental high-dimensional space. In this talk, I present a new analysis of the meaning of the wave function, and the analysis suggests a particle ontological interpretation of the wave function gives the probability density that the particles appear in every possible group of positions in space. Moreover, I argue that the difference between particle ontology and field ontology may result in different predictions under certain reasonable assumption, and it is the former, not the latter, that is consistent with the predictions of quantum mechanics. Finally, I discuss similar pictures of motion of particles suggested by others. It is argued that Bell’s Everett (?) theory also implies the picture of random discontinuous motion of particles.