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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?.Lack of "causal power" means something slightly different than lack of causality. Lack of "causal power" occurs for example if...
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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?.ETH, Ithaca, ...?
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There's the ETH interpretation of QM. ETH stands for events, trees, and histories, but I suspect it is a nod to ETH Zurich. -
gentzen replied to the thread Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?.What I understood from...
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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?.Yes, in "quantum foundations". That is why I said "normally": This is about understanding Barandes' motivations, not necessarily about...
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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?.Here is Barandes' own definition from the abstract:
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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate How valid is the indivisible interpretation of quantum mechanics?.If you want to read something recent from Jacob Barandes, I would rather go with Barandes certainly has his reasons why he proposed...
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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement.I didn't know that Omnes takes that position (or has taken that position at some point in the past). So when you group Griffiths with...
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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement.Not for me. The worst offender is Depending on how one interprets this, either all proponents of CH would trivially agree with it, or...
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I'm not sure if what the author calls "Many-Worlds variant of CH" is distinct from Many-Worlds, where choice of "history space" is a... -
gentzen replied to the thread Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement.Honestly, I find this description unnecessarily ambiguous. And assuming you had used clearer language, would different CH proponents...
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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement.Well, you can tell a story where the system has ... You can also tell another story, consistent with itself and measurement results, but...
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gentzen replied to the thread Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement.The path is a possible consistent story. But it is not the only possible story. In this sense, it is not physically real. But it is more...
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yea I’m having a tough time trying to comprehend what the formalism is saying. Are the coarse grained descriptions supposed to be the...