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Not the Measurement Problem's Problem: Black Hole Information Loss with Schrödinger's Cat

Dulani, Saakshi (2025) Not the Measurement Problem's Problem: Black Hole Information Loss with Schrödinger's Cat. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Recently, several philosophers and physicists have increasingly noticed the hegemony of unitarity in the black hole information loss discourse and are challenging its legitimacy in the face of the measurement problem. They proclaim that embracing non-unitarity solves two paradoxes for the price of one. Though I share their distaste over the philosophical bias, I disagree with their strategy of still privileging certain interpretations of quantum theory. I argue that information-restoring solutions can be interpretation-neutral because the manifestation of non-unitarity in Hawking's original derivation is unrelated to what's found in collapse theories or generalized stochastic approaches, thereby decoupling the two puzzles.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
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Dulani, Saakshi
Keywords: philosophy of physics, metaphysics, black holes, Hawking radiation, information loss, quantum mechanics, measurement problem
Subjects: General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics
General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism
General Issues > Laws of Nature
Specific Sciences > Physics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
General Issues > Structure of Theories
Depositing User: Dr. Saakshi Dulani
Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2025 16:17
Last Modified: 13 Jan 2025 15:04
Item ID: 24506
Subjects: General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics
General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism
General Issues > Laws of Nature
Specific Sciences > Physics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
General Issues > Structure of Theories
Date: 9 January 2025
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24506

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