Here is one (of many) discussions of the fact that special relativity creates
avoidable conflicts with QM, while also providing a model that is founded upon the notion that an objective reality does in fact exist. As this russian physicist notes, in his paper: "Heisenberg spoke along the same line:”… Reality is in the observation, not in the electron …” [6]. In fact, it was an
unprecedented case when realism, as a philosophical basis, was consciously
rejected by a physical theory." Personally, I disagree. The first time was with the Minkowski interpretation of SR. Einstein later expressed regret that his then-current positivism (which he then called "nonsense") when formulating SR was then used to justify the Copenhagen interpretation of QM.
Quote:Toward a real synthesis of quantum and relativity theories: experimental evidence for absolute simultaneity
Journal ofPhysics:ConferenceSeries 442 (2013) 012035
From the abstract: Our observations directly contradict the no-aether Einstein's interpretation of special relativity together with the Minkowski's model of spacetime. However they are consistent with the aether-related Lorentz-Poincare's interpretation that allows absolute simultaneity. We thus strongly challenge the fundamental status of Lorentz invariance and hence break the basic argument against de Broglie-Bohm realistic quantum theory. We argue that both de Broglie-Bohm and Lorentz-Poincare theories are capable of providing a real synthesis of quantum and relativity theories
From the paper:
The interpretation of the special relativity is not “a matter of taste” but leads to significant physical consequences....Einstein’s relativity is experimentally-distinguishable from the Lorentz-Poincare’s relativity... We have thus got two quantum theories, standard QM and the pilot-wave theory, and both are equally successful in prediction of experimental observations...
However, their principle difference is that the former rests on mysticism and indeterminism while the latter rests on realism and determinism which is the basis of all current physical theories. As a result, the former encounters serious conceptual problems and can hardly be unified with relativity theory. Conversely, the latter naturally avoids conceptual problems and can easily be unified with relativity or, more precisely, with the Lorentz-Poincare’s version of this theory. In this situation, the choice in favour of one of these theories seems self-evident though it clearly will take some courage to overcome the existing prejudices about quantum theory.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/442/1/012035
Of course this merely echoes John S. Bell's observations, made decades ago:
Quote:I would say that the cheapest resolution is something like going back to relativity as it was before Einstein, when people like Lorentz and Poincare´ thought that there was an aether—a preferred frame of reference—but that our measuring instruments were distorted by motion in such a way that we could not detect motion through the aether....[This] pre-Einstein position of Lorentz and Poincare´, Larmor and Fitzgerald, was perfectly coherent, and is not inconsistent with relativity theory.
The Ghost in the Atom, interview with J. S. Bell, edited by P. C. W. Davies
and J. R. Brown (Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1986), Chap. 3.
The first autho notes that: "...it clearly will take some courage to overcome the existing prejudices about quantum theory," but it's strange that he doesn't even mention the same prejudices about relativity theory itself.
Any comments from the "special relativity in unquestionably true" crew here?