Do Dynamical Reduction Models Imply that Arithmetic Does Not Apply to Ordinary Macroscopic Objects?

DOI10.1093/BJPS/50.1.49MaRDI QIDQ4527770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giancarlo Ghirardi, Angelo Bassi

Publication date 6 August 2002

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810041

zbMATH Keywords

measurement theorymacro-objectification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: We analyze a recent paper in which an alleged devastating criticism to the so called GRW proposal to account for the objectification of the properties of macroscopic systems has been presented and we show that the author has not taken into account the precise implications of the GRW theory. This fact makes his conclusions basically wrong. We also perform a survey of measurement theory aimed to better focus the physical and the conceptual aspects of the so-called macro-objectification problem.

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