2008/04/30 by Don N. Page
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.78.023514
published as Phys.Rev.D78:023514,2008 · 7 pages, LaTeX, version accepted 2008 June 4 for Physical Review D
arxiv created 2008/06/04 · openalex publication_date 2008/07/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2020/07/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Hartle and Srednicki have suggested that standard quantum theory does not favor our typicality. Here an alternative version is proposed in which typicality is likely, Eventual Quantum Mechanics. This version allows one to calculate normalized probabilities for alternatives obeying what I call the principle of observational discrimination, that each possible complete observation or data set should uniquely distinguish one element from the set of alternatives.