Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

[Demystifier]

The Heisenberg algebra is of course a very unjust misnomer, i.e., it should be named "Born algebra", because indeed Born was the first to write down the commutation relations for position and momentum and recognized the algebraic scheme behind Heisenberg's Helgoland paper ;-)).

I was not aware of this, but it's consistent with the Stigler's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy

 

[vanhees71]

Well Greenspan's biography of Born is very revealing concerning the behavior of Heisenberg!

 

[martinbn]

I was not aware of this, but it's consistent with the Stigler's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy

That's known as Arnold's principle.

• The Arnold Principle: If a notion bears a personal name, then this name is not the name of the discoverer.
• The Berry Principle: The Arnold Principle is applicable to itself.

 

[Lord Jestocost]

The many-world interpretation, which is the main subject of the book we are supposed to discuss here, is one such mental picture that some physicists find intuitive.

Maybe, the many-world interpretation is one such mental pictures that some physicists find intuitive. Nevertheless, the essential question is swept under the rug. There is only an illusion of probability of outcomes of quantum measurements. The many-world interpretation is deterministic about things we never see and fails to predict the probabilistic events we do see.