Barrett, Jeffrey A. (2016) Typicality in Pure Wave Mechanics. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Hugh Everett III's pure wave mechanics is a deterministic physical theory with no probabilities. He nevertheless sought to show how his theory might be understood as making the same statistical predictions as the standard collapse formulation of quantum mechanics. We will consider Everett's
argument for pure wave mechanics, how it depends on the notion of branch typicality, and the relationship between the predictions of pure wave mechanics and the standard quantum probabilities.
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Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||
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Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Fluctuation and Noise Letters. | ||||||
Keywords: | Hugh Everett III, pure wave mechanics, typicality, probability, statistical explanation | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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Depositing User: | Jeffrey Barrett | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2016 14:54 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2016 20:30 | ||||||
Item ID: | 11945 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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Date: | 2016 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11945 |
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