The EPR-Experiment and Free Process Theory

Author: Christiaens, Wim

Source: Axiomathes, Volume 14, Numbers 1-3, January 2003 , pp. 267-283(17)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

As part of the ‘creation-discovery’ interpretation of quantum mechanics DiederikAerts presented a setting with macroscopical coincidence experiments designed toexhibit significant conceptual analogies between portions of stuff and quantumcompound entities in a singlet state in Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen/Bell-experiments (EPR-experiments). One important claim of the creation-discovery view is that the singlet state describes an entity that does not have a definite position in space and thus ‘does not exist in space’. ‘Free Process Theory’ is a recent proposal by JohannaSeibt of an integrated ontology, i.e., of an ontology suitable for the interpretation oftheories of the macrophysical and microphysical domain (quantum field theory). Theframework of free process theory allows us to show systematically the relevant analogies and disanalogies between Aerts’ experiment and EPR-experiments. From free process ontology it also follows quite naturally that the quantum compound entity described by the singlet state ‘does not exist in space.’

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:AXIO.0000006796.36127.10

Publication date: 2003-01-01