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View SchemaA Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem
| Authors | Andrew Gray |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9712037 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9712037 |
Abstract
A new formulation of quantum mechanics is developed which does not require the concept of the wave-particle duality. Rather than assigning probabilities to outcomes, probabilities are instead assigned to entire fine-grained histories. The formulation is fully relativistic and applicable to multi-particle systems. It shall be shown that this new formulation makes the same experimental predictions as quantum field theory, but without having to rely upon the notion of a system evolving in a superposition of quantum states until collapsed by an observation. It is thus free from the problem of deciding what exactly constitutes an observation (the measurement problem) and may therefore be applied just as readily to the macroscopic world as to the microscopic.
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