2021/12/28 by Pavel Bóna, Bóna, Pavel
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Discontinuity (linguistics) #Geometry #Interpretation (philosophy) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Measurement problem #Observable #Observer (physics) #Physics #Point (geometry) #Pure mathematics #Quantum #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum dynamics #Quantum measurement #Quantum mechanics #Quantum process #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #Von Neumann architecture #Wave function collapse #Wave packet #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2201.03705
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 7 pages
arxiv created 2021/12/28 · openalex publication_date 2021/12/28 · arxiv updated 2022/01/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
It is shown that the classical book by von Neumann proposing dynamics of measured systems with "reduction (or collapse) of system's wave packet" contains also hints how to avoid this discontinuity in time evolution of the measured system (hence it is in this point not quite selfconsistent). The possibility of avoiding that collapse is a consequence of the observation that any "human observer" can observe simultaneously just mutually compatible "observables". In the paper it is shown how to describe this fact and its consequences. The proposed interpretation of quantum measurement leads also to trivial solution of the "Schr"odinger Cat Paradox".