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

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Abstract

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)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID 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:	16 Jan 2025 14:12
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2025 14:12
Item ID:	24561
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/24561

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