Loschmidt's paradox-II: Quantum Decoherence

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So if you remember, Loschmidt's paradox is about "Loschmidt's paradox, also known as the reversibility paradox, is the objection that it should not be possible to deduce an irreversible process from time-symmetric dynamics" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loschmidt's_paradox )

My question is, how time-assymetric Quantum Decoherence emerges from time-symmetric Quantum Mechanics?

P.S. I don't think weak CP violation (which leads to T-symettry violation) plays any role in it.
 
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Isn't it simply that the wave-function of the universe/multiverse as a whole is time reversible, even though we can inspect it from a basis in which each part is not reversible? In other words, there's nothing preventing the SE from back-evolving a superposition of "observed dead cat" plus "observed live cat" into "haven't yet opened the box"; apparent asymmetry arises from our (self-centred) choices to ignore/drop part of the final superposition.

(And classicaly, there is no paradox in time-symmetric laws predicting that if the universe had low entropy at its lower bound of time then it will have entropy increasing with time.)
 
Dmitry67 said:
My question is, how time-assymetric Quantum Decoherence emerges from time-symmetric Quantum Mechanics?
Essentially, the same way how time-asymmetric second law of thermodynamics emerges from classical time-symmetric equations of motion:
Special initial conditions + coarse graining -> time-asymmetry
 
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If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!

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