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-====== Talk title ======
+====== Does Non-Relativistic Quantum Theory Exist? ======
-**Name and Surname**
+**Tim Maudlin, Ph.D. Professor**
-\\ //Affiliation//
+\\ //New York University, USA//
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-Abstract
+Many conceptual investigations into the possible ways to interpret the quantum formalism begin with the examination of the non-relativistic theory. For many purposes, this appears to be a good strategy. For example, if one is interested in how one could solve the measurement problem, there are non-relativistic theories that illustrate the various approaches, such as Bohmian mechanics, GRW, and Many Worlds. Having understood the non-relativistic case, one then asks how the basic form of the solution might be extended to the relativistic domain.
+This same strategy can be attempted when asking about the ontological status of the wavefunction. Questions about whether and how the mathematical object represents a physical reality can be asked in the non-relativistic setting, and the answers there used to inform investigation into the relativistic setting. I will suggest that this sort of approach may be seriously misleading, and that, in a particular sense, there is no non-relativistic version of quantum theory.
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