Repository | Book | Chapter
(1999) Epistemological and experimental perspectives on quantum physics, Dordrecht, Springer.
Papers advocating a hidden-variable interpretation of quantum mechanics typically begin by emphasizing that John von Neumann's no-go theorem does not apply to them. If authors are ontologically minded, their criticism also takes aim at his theory of measurement as expressed in his seminal 1932 book Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Additionally, David Bohm and Basil Hiley have recently argued that "in so far as von Neumann effectively gave the quantum state a certain ontological significance, the net result was to produce a confused and unsatisfactory ontology. This ontology is such that the collapse of the wave function must also have an ontological significance."1
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1454-9_26
Full citation:
Stöltzner, M. (1999)., What John von Neumann thought of the Bohm interpretation, in D. Greenberger & A. Zeilinger (eds.), Epistemological and experimental perspectives on quantum physics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 257-262.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.