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Open Quantum Systems Decoherence Entanglement Theory Quantum Correlations

The Everett-Wheeler interpretation and the open future

arXiv
Authors: Anthony Sudbery

Year

2010

Paper ID

11202

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Preprint

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I discuss the meaning of probability in the Everett-Wheeler interpretation of quantum mechanics, together with the problem of defining histories. To resolve these, I propose an understanding of probability arising from a form of temporal logic: the probability of a future-tense proposition is identified with its truth value in a many-valued and context-dependent logic. In short, probability is degree of truth. These ideas appear to be new (though I expect correction on this), but they are natural and intuitive, and relate to traditional naive ideas of time and chance. Indeed, I argue that Everettian quantum mechanics is the only form of scientific theory that truly incorporates the perception that the future is open.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1009.3914 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3914 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3914

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