Dynamics & Predictions in the Co-Event Interpretation
Quantum Physics
2012-10-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Sorkin has introduced a new, observer independent, interpretation of quantum mechanics that can give a successful realist account of the 'quantum microworld' as well as explaining how classicality emerges at the level of observable events for a range of systems including single time 'Copenhagen measurements'. This 'co-event interpretation' presents us with a new ontology, in which a single 'co-event' is real. A new ontology necessitates a review of the dynamical & predictive mechanism of a theory, and in this paper we begin the process by exploring means of expressing the dynamical and predictive content of histories theories in terms of co-events.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.3675,
title = {Dynamics & Predictions in the Co-Event Interpretation},
author = {Yousef Ghazi-Tabatabai and Petros Wallden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3675},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
35 pages. Revised after refereeing