Adlam, Emily (2023) Disappearing Without a Trace: The Arrows of Time in Kent's Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem. [Preprint]
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Most existing proposals to explain the temporal asymmetries we see around us are sited within an approach to physics based on time evolution, and thus they typically put the asymmetry in at the beginning of time in the form of a special initial state. But there may be other possibilities for explaining temporal asymmetries if we don't presuppose the time evolution paradigm. In this article, we explore one such possibility, based on Kent's `final-measurement' interpretation of quantum mechanics. We argue that this approach potentially has the resources to explain the electromagnetic asymmetry, the thermodynamic asymmetry, the coarse-graining asymmetry, the fork asymmetry, the record asymmetry, and the cosmological asymmetry, and that the explanations it offers may potentially be better than explanations appealing to a special initial state. Our hope is that this example will encourage further exploration of novel approaches to temporal asymmetry outside of the time evolution paradigm.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in BJPS | ||||||
| Keywords: | Arrow of time; interpretation of quantum mechanics; time evolution; temporal asymmetry | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Emily Adlam | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2023 12:30 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2023 12:30 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 22287 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 22 May 2023 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22287 |
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