2021/10/02 by Hitoshi Inamori, Inamori, Hitoshi
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2110.01980
10 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2021/10/02 · openalex publication_date 2021/10/02 · arxiv updated 2021/10/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is generally accepted that Everett's theory of quantum mechanics cannot be experimentally tested as such experiment would involve operations on the observer which are beyond our current technology. We propose an alternative to test Everett's theory which does not involve any operation on the observer. If we assume that the observer is of finite dimension, it is shown that Everett's theory leads to distinctive properties for the system being observed, and that such difference can be experimentally tested.