Fair enough. Unfortunately, the interpretive options for QFT are still not clearly worked out. I think the idea among quantum foundations people tends to be that we first figure out the best interpretation in the relatively simpler domain of NRQM, then think about how to adapt this interpretation to meet any new challenges from QFT.
This is no doubt partly due to the fact that the formal structure of NRQM is much better systematized and understood. We basically have a satisfactory axiomatization of NRQM, but attemptedaxiomatizations of QFT still have many lacunae. So there’s definitely a “looking for your keys under the streetlight even though you dropped them in the dark” thing going on here.
Fair enough. Unfortunately, the interpretive options for QFT are still not clearly worked out. I think the idea among quantum foundations people tends to be that we first figure out the best interpretation in the relatively simpler domain of NRQM, then think about how to adapt this interpretation to meet any new challenges from QFT.
This is no doubt partly due to the fact that the formal structure of NRQM is much better systematized and understood. We basically have a satisfactory axiomatization of NRQM, but attempted axiomatizations of QFT still have many lacunae. So there’s definitely a “looking for your keys under the streetlight even though you dropped them in the dark” thing going on here.