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Fundamental Spatio-Temporal Decoherence: A Key To Solving The Conceptual Problems Of Black Holes, Cosmology And Quantum Mechanics, Rodolfo Gambini, Rafael A. Porto, Jorge Pullin
Fundamental Spatio-Temporal Decoherence: A Key To Solving The Conceptual Problems Of Black Holes, Cosmology And Quantum Mechanics, Rodolfo Gambini, Rafael A. Porto, Jorge Pullin
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Unitarity is a pillar of quantum theory. Nevertheless, it is also a source of several of its conceptual problems. We note that in a world where measurements are relational, as is the case in gravitation, quantum mechanics exhibits a fundamental level of loss of coherence. This can be the key to solving, among others, the puzzles posed by the black hole information paradox, the formation of inhomogeneities in cosmology and the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. © World Scientific Publishing Company.
Quantum Interpretations, A. R.P. Rau
Quantum Interpretations, A. R.P. Rau
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Difficulties and discomfort with the interpretation of quantum mechanics are due to differences in language between it and classical physics. Analogies to the special theory of relativity, which also required changes in the basic world-view and language of nonrelativistic classical mechanics, may help in absorbing the changes called for by quantum physics. There is no need to invoke extravagances such as the many-worlds interpretation or specify a central role for consciousness or neural microstructures. The simple, but basic, acceptance that what is meant by the state of a physical system is different in quantum physics from what it is in …