{
  "id": "quant-ph/0609163",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2006-09-21T15:01:43.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-04-16T11:59:20.000Z",
  "title": "Quantum mechanics: Myths and facts",
  "authors": [
    "H. Nikolic"
  ],
  "comment": "51 pages, pedagogic review, revised, new references, to appear in Found. Phys",
  "journal": "Found.Phys.37:1563-1611,2007",
  "doi": "10.1007/s10701-007-9176-y",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "gr-qc",
    "hep-th",
    "physics.ed-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "A common understanding of quantum mechanics (QM) among students and practical users is often plagued by a number of \"myths\", that is, widely accepted claims on which there is not really a general consensus among experts in foundations of QM. These myths include wave-particle duality, time-energy uncertainty relation, fundamental randomness, the absence of measurement-independent reality, locality of QM, nonlocality of QM, the existence of well-defined relativistic QM, the claims that quantum field theory (QFT) solves the problems of relativistic QM or that QFT is a theory of particles, as well as myths on black-hole entropy. The fact is that the existence of various theoretical and interpretational ambiguities underlying these myths does not yet allow us to accept them as proven facts. I review the main arguments and counterarguments lying behind these myths and conclude that QM is still a not-yet-completely-understood theory open to further fundamental research.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2007-04-16T11:59:20.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum mechanics",
      "quantum field theory",
      "time-energy uncertainty relation",
      "not-yet-completely-understood theory open",
      "fundamental randomness"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 51,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 726801
    }
  }
}