Probability In Quantum Theory (1990)
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@MISC{Wayman90probabilityin,
author = {Jaynes Wayman and E. T. Jaynes and Wayman Crow and Professor Physics},
title = {Probability In Quantum Theory},
year = {1990}
}
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Abstract
: For some sixty years it has appeared to many physicists that probability plays a fundamentally different role in quantum theory than it does in statistical mechanics and analysis of measurement errors. It is a commonly heard statement that probabilities calculated within a pure state have a different character than the probabilities with which different pure states appear in a mixture, or density matrix. As Pauli put it, the former represents "Eine prinzipielle Unbestimmtheit, nicht nur Unbekanntheit". But this viewpoint leads to so many paradoxes and mysteries that we explore the consequences of the unified view, that all probability signifies only incomplete human information. We examine in detail only one of the issues this raises: the reality of zero--point energy. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: HOW WE LOOK AT THINGS 1 HOW DO WE LOOK AT GRAVITATION AND QED? 2 HOW DO WE LOOK AT BASIC QUANTUM THEORY? 4 PROBABILITY THEORY AS THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE 7 HOW WOULD QUANTUM THEORY BE DIFFERENT? 9 I...
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