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Comment on Frauchiger and Renner paper (Nat. Commun. 9, 3711 (2018)): the problem of stopping times

@article{Lerner2019CommentOF,
  title={Comment on Frauchiger and Renner paper (Nat. Commun. 9, 3711 (2018)): the problem of stopping times},
  author={Peter B. Lerner},
  journal={arXiv: Quantum Physics},
  year={2019}
}
  • P. Lerner
  • Published 5 June 2019
  • Physics
  • arXiv: Quantum Physics
The Gedankenexperiment advanced by Frauchiger and Renner in their Nature paper is based on an implicit assumption that one can synchronize stochastic measurement intervals between two non-interacting systems. This hypothesis, the author demonstrates, is equivalent to the complete entanglement of these systems. Consequently, Frauchiger and Renner's postulate Q is too broad and, in general, meaningless. Accurate reformulation of the postulate, Q1 does not seem to entail any paradoxes with… 
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