The Bell inequality and the many-worlds interpretation

DOI10.1017/CBO9781316219393.014MaRDI QIDQ2956264zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lev Vaidman

Publication date 16 January 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02691

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: It is argued that the lesson we should learn from Bell's inequalities is not that quantum mechanics requires some kind of action at a distance, but that it leads us to believe in parallel worlds.

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