کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1161663 1490462 2007 17 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Measurement outcomes and probability in Everettian quantum mechanics
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم فیزیک و نجوم (عمومی)
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Measurement outcomes and probability in Everettian quantum mechanics
چکیده انگلیسی

The decision-theoretic account of probability in the Everett or many-worlds interpretation, advanced by David Deutsch and David Wallace, is shown to be circular. Talk of probability in Everett presumes the existence of a preferred basis to identify measurement outcomes for the probabilities to range over. But the existence of a preferred basis can only be established by the process of decoherence, which is itself probabilistic.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics - Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 153–169
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