Against 3N-Dimensional Space
In David Albert Alyssa Ney (ed.), The Wave Function: Essays in the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (2013)
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Bradley Monton
Wuhan University
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I argue that space has three dimensions, and quantum mechanics does not show otherwise. Specifically, I argue that the mathematical wave function of quantum mechanics corresponds to a property that an N-particle system has in three-dimensional space.
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| Keywords | wave function realism dimensions of space David Albert GRW theory Bohm's theory J.S. Bell Bohr Schrodinger |
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