  We address the issue of the interpretation of quantum mechanics by asking why
the issue never arises in the description of high-energy interactions. We argue
that several tenets of quantum mechanics, specifically the collapse of the wave
function, follow directly once one accepts the essential randomness of
fundamental interaction events. We then show that scale separation of
fundamental interactions ensures that decoherent measurement can be
unambiguously separated from the random quantum events. Finally, we argue that
the fundamental symmetries of space and time guarantee the existence of a
unique preferred basis. We argue that this set of ideas might lead to an
interpretation of quantum mechanics, or rather, show in which sense an
"interpretation" is (or is not) necessary.
