Born Again
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-07-27 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
A simple proof is given that the probabilities of observations in a large universe are not given directly by Born's rule as the expectation values of projection operators in a global quantum state of the entire universe. An alternative procedure is proposed for constructing an averaged density matrix for a random small region of the universe and then calculating observational probabilities indirectly by Born's rule as conditional probabilities, conditioned upon the existence of an observation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.4152,
title = {Born Again},
author = {Don N. Page},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4152},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX