Everett's pure wave mechanics and the notion of worlds

DOI10.1007/S13194-011-0023-9MaRDI QIDQ693105zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey A. Barrett

Publication date 7 December 2012

Published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-011-0023-9

zbMATH Keywords

many worldspure wave mechanicsquantum measurement problemHugh Everett IIIBryce DeWittemergent worldsparallel universesrelative-states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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