Relational Realism on Reform of the View of Physical Reality and Its Logical Manifestation

Abstract

The interpretation of quantum mechanics (QM) is one of the most controversial issues of 20th century science and philosophy of science. As some scientists and philosophers mentioned, many problems in it, such as wave collapse and the measurement problem, wave-particle duality and non-visualizable reality, the EPR argument and correlation-at-adistance, etc., concerned both physical theory and philosophical concepts. Many quarrels came from the divergences of the disputers’ philosophical views, especially of their view of reality. Then, a key question for interpretation of QM is whether we should and can hold on to the classical view of reality after such a radical change from classical physics (CP) to QM, and if not, how should we modify it? By examining the classical view of reality, the conceptual features of QM, and some affirmative interpretations of QM, we try to give a somewhat new view of reality, its logical form, and some applications of it. We hope that our tentative answer to this question may be helpful to provide a new perspective in understanding physical reality.