...This chapter considers the worry that, rather than there being no description of the microworld available, there may be several competing descriptions. The problematic role of measurement in standard quantum mechanics is explained. Three leading approaches for responding to the measurement problem...

... , January 19. Bethe H interpretation of QM Jammer M Schweber SS Everett H Laloë F Weinberg S Zeilinger A Aspect A Bell JS Bohm D Clauser J Badino M Freire Jr O Schlosshauer M Quantum controversy entanglement decoherence measurement problem quantum information quantum gravity quantum...

...The measurement problem is the most important and hardest problem of quantum mechanics. Recently it has been debated what the problem really is and especially whether it is related to the minds of observers. In this chapter, I will defend my mentalistic formulation of the measurement problem...

... on Wigner’s friend and delayed choice. Herein we provide a realist psi-epistemic take on QM that saves the absoluteness of observed events and the completeness of QM, without giving up free will or locality. We also show how our realist psi-epistemic account eliminates the measurement problem and, coupled...

...A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations. Steven French, Oxford University Press. © Steven French 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198897958.003.0001 In this short introductory chapter, the basics of the measurement problem are presented...

... to probabilities. While results from classical physics are neither fully relevant nor conclusive, quantum mechanics is often assumed to establish indeterminism beyond doubt. However, whether the quantum world is indeterministic crucially depends on how the measurement problem is solved. There are both...

... is the everyday sense of the “flow” of time from past to future consistent with the invariance of the laws of physics under time reversal? The third problem is how to incorporate the occurrence of definite outcomes within the framework of quantum mechanics (the “quantum measurement problem”). philosophy relation...

...Precursing now popular ‘spontaneous reduction’ views, this chapter argues that the measurement problem in quantum mechanics is not a problem of measurement at all. Reductions happen in a variety of circumstances and are particularly important in the preparation of quantum states...

...Bananaworld. First Edition. Jeffrey Bub. © Jeffrey Bub, 2016. Published 2016 by Oxford University Press. The interaction between Schrodinger’s cat and a radioactive atom is the sort of thing that happens in a quantum measurement. The “measurement problem” of quantum mechanics...

...The busiest, most productive, and most conspicuous topic at the foundations of physics over the past few decades has been the quantum-mechanical measurement problem, and the enterprise of trying to fix that problem up has opened a wide and distinctive new avenue into nature, which exuberantly...

...The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Jeffrey A. Barrett, Oxford University Press (2019) © Jeffrey A. BarrettDOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198844686.001.0001 We use the Wigner’s friend story to characterize the quantum measurement problem. On the standard formulation of quantum...

... important problems which dominated the field in the past. In the late twentieth century, the philosophy of physics was largely focused on orthodox Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory. The measurement problem, the question of the possibility of hidden variables, and the nature of quantum locality...

... question that has been the subject of far more debate in the foundations of physics. This is the question of the correct solution to the measurement problem. Both the ontological questions and the measurement problem concern the proper interpretation of quantum theories. But the measurement problem...

... there is no explanation: somehow a superposition of state vectors miraculously chooses to become just one of them. The conditions under which this is to occur are vaguely speci ed: after a measurement. So, the existence of this poorly de ned feature of quantum theory is called the measurement problem. 3As far as I am...

...After an initial discussion of the general aims of scientific theories, the quantum measurement problem is presented. Non-Everettian solutions to the problem are briefly discussed; the aim of the discussion is to show that these solutions require significant change either to our philosophical...

... sketch of the “measurement problem,” which these nineteenth-century experimentalists faced in their work on nonhuman animal consciousness. Many of their experiments relied on third-person accessible, behavioral criteria for determining whether a creature in a given condition is or is not conscious...

... for his view, paying special attention to results from experimental physiology on which his argument relies. The chapter concludes by showing how James’s argument sidesteps the measurement problem, which is the problem of finding reasonable criteria for determining whether some other creature...

...Richard Healey, The Measurement Problem for Emergent Spacetime in Loop Quantum Gravity In: Philosophy Beyond Spacetime: Implications from Quantum Gravity. Edited by: Christian Wüthrich, Baptiste Le Bihan, and Nick Huggett, Oxford University Press. © Richard Healey...

...This chapter reviews the history of the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, from its roots in the wave-particle paradox until around 1990. After examining von Neumann’s formulation of the problem, the proposed solutions are examined, separated into objectivist solutions, subjectivist views...