Remarks on the direction of time in quantum mechanics
Philosophy of Science 70 (5):1458-1471 (2003)
| Abstract | I argue that in the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics time has no fundamental direction. I further discuss a way to recover thermodynamics in this interpretation using decoherence theory (Zurek and Paz 1994). Albert's proposal to recover thermodynamics from the collapse theory of Ghirardi et al. (1986) is also considered. | |||||||||
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