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View SchemaContextual objectivity and the quantum formalism
| Authors | Philippe Grangier |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0407025 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0407025 |
Abstract
The new orthodoxy of quantum mechanics (QM) based on the decoherence approach requires many-worlds as an essential ingredient for logical consistency, and one may wonder what status to give to all these "other worlds". Here we advocate that it is possible to build a consistent approach to QM where no other worlds are needed, and where the quantum formalism appears as a consequence of requiring the enumerability of physical properties. Such a quantization hypothesis is closely related to indistinguishability, and is deeply inconsistent with classical physics.
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