Everett and structure
@article{Wallace2001EverettAS, title={Everett and structure}, author={D. Wallace}, journal={Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics}, year={2001}, volume={34}, pages={87-105} }
I address the problem of indefiniteness in quantum mechanics: the problem that the theory, without changes to its formalism, seems to predict that macroscopic quantities have no definite values. The Everett interpretation is often criticised along these lines and I shall argue that much of this criticism rests on a false dichotomy: that the macroworld must either be written directly into the formalism or be regarded as somehow illusory. By means of analogy with other areas of physics, I develop… CONTINUE READING
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