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Andy, Thanks, your reply gives me a better idea of what's going on. Now I see that I didn't pose my question very well. Entropy increases because the number of possible states increases. With better understanding, I will re-formulate my question: Is EQ 12 the "root cause" of entropy...

Ken, Thanks for the reply. You can get Zurek's paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306072. In this paper, Zurek rejects both Bohr's and Everett's ways of looking at the measurement problem. He gives a much more plausible description of the process. But that’s a different...

Back in August I asked a question on this forum about Zurek's paper "Decoherence and the Transition from Quantum to Classical—Revisited" and got no response. I am sure many of the folks on this list have read this paper in which Zurek states that entropy increases upon decoherence (that's how...