Against the empirical viability of the Deutsch-Wallace-Everett approach to quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2014.05.005MaRDI QIDQ407333zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Dawid, Karim P. Y. Thébault

Publication date 29 August 2014

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.05.005

zbMATH Keywords

Everett interpretationmany worldsempirical viability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Noncommutative probability and statistics (46L53)

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