Classical physics and Hamiltonian quantum mechanics as relics of the Big Bang

DOI10.1088/0031-8949/1991/T36/024zbMATH Open1063.83587arXiv2103.08574OpenAlexW2078208171MaRDI QIDQ4490980FDOQ4490980

Authors: J. B. Hartle 

Publication date: 24 July 2000

Published in: Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a fundamental formulation of the quantum mechanics of a closed system such as the universe as a whole, three forms of information are needed to make predictions for the probabilities of alternative time histories of the closed system . These are the action functional of the elementary particles, the quantum istate of the universe, and the description of our specific history. We discuss the origin of the "quasiclassical realm" of familiar experience and Hamiltonian quantum mechanics with its preferred time in such a formulation of quantum cosmology. It is argued that these features of the universe are not general properties of quantum theory, but rather approximate features that are emergent after the Planck time as a consequence of theories of the closed system's quantum state and dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08574

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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