Lopez, Cristian (2019) Roads to the past: how to go and not to go backward in time in quantum theories. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 9 (27). ISSN 1879-4912
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In this article I shall defend, against the conventional understanding of the matter, that two coherent and tenable approaches to time reversal can be suitably introduced in standard quantum mechanics: an orthodox approach that demands time reversal to be represented in terms of an anti-unitary and anti-linear time-reversal operator, and a heterodox approach that represents time reversal in terms of a unitary, linear time-reversal operator.
The rationale shall be that the orthodox approach in quantum theories assumes a
relationalist metaphysics of time, according to which time reversal is nothing but motion reversal. But, when one shifts gears and turn to a substantivalist metaphysics of time the heterodox approach to time reversal in quantum mechanics comes up in amore natural way.
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| Keywords: | Time reversal; Metaphysics of time; Substantivalism; Relationalism; Quantum Theories | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Cristian Lopez | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2025 17:56 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Jan 2025 17:56 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 24635 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal for Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-0... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1007/s13194-019-0250-z | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 18 March 2019 | ||||||
| Volume: | 9 | ||||||
| Number: | 27 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1879-4912 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24635 |
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