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Hello all,
I would like to learn more about the formalism of the transactional interpretation in QM. Apparently, the formalism is NOT the same as in unitary QM (but the claim is that the empirical predictions are equivalent). As such, it is not so much an *interpretation* but an equivalent, but different, physical theory. However, the few documents I can find
(namely, by its founder: http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/tiqm/TI_toc.html )
do not seem to be very explicit on it. His paper
http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/gat_80/
does not seem to address the relationship between a multi-particle Hilbert space description (in standard QM) and his single-particle "squared" Schroedinger equation.
In other words, I do not find anywhere, what mathematical structure is seen as the "state space" of nature, and how it is related to standard QM (in order to justify the claim of empirical equivalence). Most of the writings seem to try to make the reader accept the idea of "backwards causation", but I would like to see simply how this idea is put in music wrt to unitary quantum theory.
My point behind it is to find out if there is a natural way in which this view can avoid my body to end up in a superposition ; in what way he can avoid any MWI scenario.
For instance, how do you view the state of an Argon atom in this picture...
I would like to learn more about the formalism of the transactional interpretation in QM. Apparently, the formalism is NOT the same as in unitary QM (but the claim is that the empirical predictions are equivalent). As such, it is not so much an *interpretation* but an equivalent, but different, physical theory. However, the few documents I can find
(namely, by its founder: http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/tiqm/TI_toc.html )
do not seem to be very explicit on it. His paper
http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/gat_80/
does not seem to address the relationship between a multi-particle Hilbert space description (in standard QM) and his single-particle "squared" Schroedinger equation.
In other words, I do not find anywhere, what mathematical structure is seen as the "state space" of nature, and how it is related to standard QM (in order to justify the claim of empirical equivalence). Most of the writings seem to try to make the reader accept the idea of "backwards causation", but I would like to see simply how this idea is put in music wrt to unitary quantum theory.
My point behind it is to find out if there is a natural way in which this view can avoid my body to end up in a superposition ; in what way he can avoid any MWI scenario.
For instance, how do you view the state of an Argon atom in this picture...
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