Affiliation:
1. Department of Humanities and Arts, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Abstract
A longstanding issue in the Everettian (Many-Worlds) interpretation is to justify and make sense of the Born rule that underlies the statistical predictions of standard quantum mechanics. The paper offers a reappraisal of Everett’s original account in light of the recent literature on the concept of typicality. It argues that Everett’s derivation of the Born rule is sound and, in a certain sense, even an optimal result, and defends it against the charge of circularity. The conclusion is that Everett’s typicality argument can successfully ground post-factum explanations of Born statistics, while questions remain about the predictive power of the Many-Worlds interpretation.
Funder
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Subject
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous),Astronomy and Astrophysics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Reference33 articles.
1. Zalta, E.N. (2021). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. [Fall 2021 ed.].
2. Bricmont, J. (2016). Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics, Springer International Publishing.
3. Maudlin, T. (2019). Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory, Princeton University Press.
4. Everett, H. (1956). The Theory of the Universal Wave Function. [Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University].
5. “Relative State” Formulation of Quantum Mechanics;Everett;Rev. Mod. Phys.,1957
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献