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    "abstract": "This paper describes how the entire universe might be considered an\neigenstate determined by classical limiting conditions within it. This\ndescription is in the context of an approach in which the path of each\nrelativistic particle in spacetime represents a fine-grained history for that\nparticle, and a path integral represents a coarse-grained history as a\nsuperposition of paths meeting some criteria. Since spacetime paths are\nparametrized by an invariant parameter, not time, histories based on such paths\ndo not evolve in time but are rather histories of all spacetime. Measurements\ncan then be represented by orthogonal states that correlate with specific\npoints in such coarse-grained histories, causing them to decohere, allowing a\nconsistent probability interpretation. This conception is applied here to the\nanalysis of the two slit experiment, scattering and, ultimately, the universe\nas a whole. The decoherence of cosmological states of the universe then\nprovides the eigenstates from which our \"real\" universe can be selected by the\nmeasurements carried out within it.",
    "arxiv_id": "quant-ph/0612023",
    "authors": [
      "Ed Seidewitz"
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    "doi": "10.1007/s10701-007-9123-y",
    "journal_ref": "Found.Phys.37:572,2007",
    "title": "The universe as an eigenstate: spacetime paths and decoherence",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0612023"
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