Posted: Jun 12, 2011 12:03 am
by Teuton
Paul Almond wrote:To put it simply, it proposes that the basis for "reality as we know it" is the quantum wave function, and that this has real existence.


Functions are abstract mathematical entities, so the quantum wave function cannot be the basis of physical reality, which must itself be a concrete physical entity (a quantum field?). It can at most represent that basis mathematically.