| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 58, 2013
TM 2012 – The Time Machine Factory [unspeakable, speakable] on Time Travel in Turin
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| Article Number | 01016 | |
| Number of page(s) | 10 | |
| Section | Causality in Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135801016 | |
| Published online | 05 September 2013 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135801016
Could quantum decoherence and measurement be deterministic phenomena?
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), École polytechnique de Bruxelles, Nuclear Physics and Quantum Physics, CP 229, B 1050 Brussels, Belgium
a e-mail: jmspar@ulb.ac.be
Published online: 5 September 2013
The apparent random outcome of a quantum measurement is conjectured to be fundamentally determined by the microscopic state of the macroscopic measurement apparatus. The apparatus state thus plays the role of a hidden variable which, in contrast with variables characterizing the measured microscopic system, is shown to lead to a violation of Bell’s inequalities and to agree with standard quantum mechanics. An explicit realization of this interpretation is explored (for details, see [1]) for a primitive model of cloud chamber inspired by Mott [2]. Being highly non local, this interpretation of quantum mechanics is argued to open the way to faster-than-light information transfer.
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