Why quantum mechanics favors adynamical and acausal interpretations such as relational blockworld over backwardly causal and time-symmetric rivals

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2008.07.005zbMATH Open1223.81046OpenAlexW2141072210MaRDI QIDQ643484FDOQ643484

Authors: M. Silberstein, Michael Cifone, W. M. Stuckey 

Publication date: 31 October 2011

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.2008.07.005

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zbMATH Keywords

localitytime-symmetric quantum mechanicsrelational blockworldhidden variablebackwards causationblockworld

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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