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Less Decoherence and More Coherence in Quantum Gravity, Inflationary Cosmology and Elsewhere

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E. Okon, D. Sudarsky

Quantum Physics · Submitted 16 Dec 2015

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The authors' main claim Here we will defend our position by showing in detail why decoherence does not help in the resolution of foundational questions in quantum mechanics, such as the measurement problem or the emergence of classicality.

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CitationD. Sudarsky, E. Okon. "Less Decoherence and More Coherence in Quantum Gravity, Inflationary Cosmology and Elsewhere." arXiv:1512.05298 (2015). https://pith.science/paper/BDQC2MAQ
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In Crull (2015) it is argued that, in order to confront outstanding problems in cosmology and quantum gravity, interpretational aspects of quantum theory can by bypassed because decoherence is able to resolve them. As a result, Crull (2015) concludes that our focus on conceptual and interpretational issues, while dealing with such matters in Okon and Sudarsky (2014), is avoidable and even pernicious. Here we will defend our position by showing in detail why decoherence does not help in the resolution of foundational questions in quantum mechanics, such as the measurement problem or the emergence of classicality.

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s1 As a result, Crull (2015) concludes that our focus on conceptual and interpretational issues, while dealing with such matters in Okon and Sudarsky (2014), is avoidable and even pernicious. background 0.97 0.12 0.10 asserted 1.00
s2 Here we will defend our position by showing in detail why decoherence does not help in the resolution of foundational questions in quantum mechanics, such as the measurement problem or the emergence of classicality. contribution 0.99 0.51 0.59 asserted 1.00

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In Crull (2015) it is argued that, in order to confront outstanding problems in cosmology and quantum gravity, interpretational aspects of quantum theory can by bypassed because decoherence is able to resolve them. As a result, Crull (2015) concludes that our focus on conceptual and interpretational issues, while dealing with such matters in Okon and Sudarsky (2014), is avoidable and even pernicious. Here we will defend our position by showing in detail why decoherence does not help in the resolution of foundational questions in quantum mechanics, such as the measurement problem or the emergence of classicality.

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  • Spontaneous collapse theories have been developed and studied for about four decades now [ref] in order to deal with the conceptual difficulties that plague the textbook versions[Including the so called Copenhaguen interpretation, the Von Newman interpretation and so on.] of quantum theory, and, in particular, the measurement problem (see for instance [ref] ).

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