Fleeting Critical Review of the Recent Ontic Breakthrough in Quantum Mechanics
arXiv:1409.6290
Abstract
The ontic breakthrough in quantum foundations, consisting of three theo- rems, that of Pusey, Barrett, and Rudolph (PBR), the Colbeck-Renner one, and Hardy's one, is shortly presented, together with various reactions. Some of the ideas involved are explained and/or commented upon. Thus, the wave- function is proved real in three independent ways. Each of the theorems rests on more or less plausible assumptions, but they require more in-depth anal- yses.
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