Roberts, Bryan W. (2017) Rovelli on disharmony between the quantum arrows of time. [Preprint]

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Rovelli (2016) argues that the there is disharmony with respect to the arrow of time from the perspective of testable predictions, as compared to the perspective of Schroedinger evolution, and uses this claim as evidence against realist interpretations of the wave function. I argue on the contrary that this disharmony arises only out of a non-standard definition of time reversal that ignores the 'big-T', and that harmony is restored when the standard definition is adopted.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Roberts, Bryan W. b.w.roberts@lse.ac.uk 0000-0003-0548-1280
Keywords:	time-reversal, time symmetry, quantum mechanics, Rovelli, wave function realism
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Depositing User:	Dr. Bryan W. Roberts
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2017 14:22
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2017 14:22
Item ID:	12966
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Date:	2017
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12966

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