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Quantum Theory and Cosmolog

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

C. J. S. Clarke
C. J. S. Clarke*
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University of Cambridge
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Abstract

Interpretations, or generalizations, of quantum theory that are applicable to cosmology are of interest because they must display and resolve the “paradoxes” directly. The Everett interpretation is reexamined and compared with two alternatives. Its “metaphysical” connotations can be removed, after which it is found to be more acceptable than a theory which incorporates collapse, while retaining some unsatisfactory features.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , December 1974 , pp. 317 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © 1974 by The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I should like to thank the many friends and critics who have helped bring this paper to its present form, and particularly the referee for this journal to whose careful comments I owe much of any clarity I may have achieved.

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