2009/01/31 by Yousef Ghazi-Tabatabai, Petros Wallden
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Origins and Evolution of Life #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #gr-qc #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1751-8113/42/23/235303
published as J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009), 235303 · 35 pages. Revised after refereeing
openalex publication_date 2009/05/22 · arxiv created 2009/05/27 · arxiv updated 2012/10/19 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Sorkin has introduced a new, observer independent, interpretation of quantum mechanics that can give a successful realist account of the ‘quantum micro-world’ as well as explaining how classicality emerges at the level of observable events for a range of systems including single time ‘Copenhagen measurements’. This ‘co-event interpretation’ presents us with a new ontology, in which a single ‘co-event’ is real. A new ontology necessitates a review of the dynamical and predictive mechanism of a theory, and in this paper we begin the process by exploring means of expressing the dynamical and predictive content of histories theories in terms of co-events.