Berjon, Javier and Okon, Elias and Sudarsky, Daniel (2020) Debunking prevailing explanations for the emergence of classicality in cosmology. [Preprint]
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The recent Phys. Rev. D 102, 023512 attempts to justify, from first principles, and within the standard framework, the emergence of classical behavior in the post-inflationary cosmological context. Accounting for this emergence is an important issue, as it underlies the extraordinary empirical success of our current understanding of cosmology. In this work, we offer a critique of this and other efforts at explaining the emergence of classical behavior in cosmology within the standard framework. We argue that such endeavors are generically found lacking in conceptual clarity, as they invariably rely, either upon unjustified, implicit assumptions, or on circular logic. We conclude that, within the standard approach, the emergence of classical behavior in cosmology constitutes an unexplained phenomenon.
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| Keywords: | Cosmic structure; Classicality; Primordial seeds; Emergence of structure. | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Elias Okon | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2020 23:25 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2020 23:25 | ||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 18138 | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Date: | 21 September 2020 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18138 |
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