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On the emergence of duration from quantum observation and some consequences

Quantum Physics 2013-12-04 v1

Abstract

We show that by the act of quantum measurement on a system there emerges a notion of duration and a corresponding time flow which turns out to be the thermal flow connected to the system. We show that, under some quasi-classical assumptions on the observer, this flow shows relevant properties of empirical time and some interesting consequences for Special Relativity are drawn.

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@article{arxiv.1312.0888,
  title  = {On the emergence of duration from quantum observation and some consequences},
  author = {Andreas Schlatter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0888},
  year   = {2013}
}

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11 pages