Adlam, Emily (2026) What Do Black Holes Teach Us About Wigner's Friend? [Preprint]
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Recently, Hausmann and Renner have pointed out that several famous paradoxes relating to black holes have a similar character to various Extended Wigner's Friend paradoxes. In this paper I consider what the connection between these things could teach us about the Wigner's Friend scenarios. I argue that if we take the analogy between these cases seriously, the black hole paradoxes appear to favour a certain class of response to the Wigner's Friend scenario - specifically, those which posit intrinsic relationality, rather than effective and emergent relationality, and also those which posit some kind of retrocausality.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in European Journal for Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Keywords: | Wigner's Friend; black holes; relational approaches to quantum mechanics | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Emily Adlam | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2026 12:53 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2026 12:53 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 29261 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Date: | 19 April 2026 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29261 |
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