Do quantum states evolve? Apropos of Marchildon's remarks
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Marchildon's (favorable) assessment (quant-ph/0303170, to appear in Found. Phys.) of the Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics raises several issues, which are addressed. Proceeding from the assumption that quantum mechanics is fundamentally a probability algorithm, this interpretation determines the nature of a world that is irreducibly described by this probability algorithm. Such a world features an objective fuzziness, which implies that its spatiotemporal differentiation does not "go all the way down". This result is inconsistent with the existence of an evolving instantaneous state, quantum or otherwise.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0307113,
title = {Do quantum states evolve? Apropos of Marchildon's remarks},
author = {Ulrich Mohrhoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0307113},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in Foundations of Physics; 22 pages, LaTeX