Astrophysical and Cosmological Tests of Quantum Theory
Abstract
We discuss several proposals for astrophysical and cosmological tests of quantum theory. The tests are motivated by deterministic hidden-variables theories, and in particular by the view that quantum physics is merely an effective theory of an equilibrium state. The proposed tests involve searching for nonequilibrium violations of quantum theory in: primordial inflaton fluctuations imprinted on the cosmic microwave background, relic cosmological particles, Hawking radiation, photons with entangled partners inside black holes, neutrino oscillations, and particles from very distant sources.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0610032,
title = {Astrophysical and Cosmological Tests of Quantum Theory},
author = {Antony Valentini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0610032},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
25 pages. Amendment to section 7. Contribution to: "The Quantum Universe", special issue of Journal of Physics A, dedicated to Prof. G.-C. Ghirardi on the occasion of his seventieth birthday