The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Kastner, Ruth E.

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“…The simplest one is probably Bohmian mechanics which, irrespective of personal preferences, provides a clear and consistent way to describe fundamental particles in full agreement with quantum mechanics. Other counterexamples are many-world theories [17], transactional approaches [18] or consistent histories [19].…”

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confidence: 99%

Why I am not a QBist

Marchildon¹

2015

Found Phys

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Quantum Bayesianism, or QBism, is a recent development of the epistemic view of quantum states, according to which the state vector represents knowledge about a quantum system, rather than the true state of the system. QBism explicitly adopts the subjective view of probability, wherein probability assignments express an agent's personal degrees of belief about an event. QBists claim that most if not all conceptual problems of quantum mechanics vanish if we simply take a proper epistemic and probabilistic perspective. Although this judgement is largely subjective and logically consistent, I explain why I do not share it.

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Why I am not a QBist

Marchildon¹

2015

Found Phys

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“…Later Cramer [9] introduced his transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, also using absorber theory, which is fully consistent with the Copenhagen interpretation but eliminates the instantaneous collapsing wave function. See the new book by Cramer [10] and the book by Kastner [11].…”

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Theory of a Mach Effect Thruster II

Fearn¹,

Rossum²,

Wanser³

et al. 2015

JMP

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According to Einstein, General Relativity contains the essence of Mach's ideas. Mach's principle can be summarized by stating that the inertia of a body is determined by the rest of the mass-energy content of the universe. Inertia here arises from mass-energy there. The latter, was a statement made by John Wheeler in his 1995 book, Gravitation and Inertia, coauthored by Ciufolini. Einstein believed that to be fully Machian, gravity would need a radiative component, an action-at-a-distance character, so that gravitational influences on a body from far away could be felt immediately. In 1960's, Hoyle and Narlikar (HN) developed such a theory which was a gravitational version of the Absorber theory derived by Wheeler-Feynman for classical electrodynamics and later expanded upon by Davies and Narlikar for quantum electrodynamics. The HN-field equation has the same type of mass fluctuation terms as in the Woodward Mach effect thruster theory. The force equation, used to predict the thrust in our device, can be derived from the mass fluctuation. We outline a new method for deriving the force equation. We present new experimental tests of the thruster to show that the thrust seen in our device is not due to either heating or Dean Drive effects. Successful replications have been performed by groups in Austria and Canada, but their work is still pending in the peer review literature.

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“…Still, there are those who continue to hold out hope. One prominent strategy for evading the no-go theorems is to invoke retrocausality-the hypothesis that causal in ‡uences can travel from later events to earlier events, as well as in the usual fashion from earlier events to later events (Cramer, 1986;Kastner, 2013;Price, 1994;Price and Wharton, 2013;Sutherland, 2008;Wharton, 2010). How does this strategy fare against the challenge of protective measurement?…”

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Measurement and metaphysics

Lewis¹

2014

Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality

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The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Cited by 76 publications

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Why I am not a QBist

Why I am not a QBist

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