The quantum liar experiment in Cramer's transactional interpretation
Abstract
Cramer's Transactional Interpretation (TI) is applied to the "quantum liar experiment" (QLE). It is shown how some apparently paradoxical features can be explained naturally, albeit nonlocally (since TI is an explicitly nonlocal interpretation, at least from the vantage point of ordinary spacetime). At the same time, it is proposed that in order to preserve the elegance and economy of the interpretation, it may be necessary to consider offer and confirmation waves as propagating in a "higher space" of possibilities.
- Publication:
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Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
- Pub Date:
- 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.shpsb.2010.01.001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0906.1626
- Bibcode:
- 2010SHPMP..41...86K
- Keywords:
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- Transactional interpretation;
- Time symmetry;
- Entanglement;
- Quantum paradoxes;
- Quantum Physics;
- Physics - Popular Physics
- E-Print:
- Minor editing error corrected