What is it about?
A general principle is provided by which the actualization of measurement outcomes in quantum mechanics must occur even in the absence of a physical law precisely predicting their values.
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Why is it important?
Even in the most elegant presentations of quantum mechanics there is a conceptual gap in explaining the occurrence of specific outcomes in individual measurements. A principle closing this gap is provided in this publication.
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The role of physics is to describe and explain the events observed in nature as fully as possible. In some instances, the state of current physical theory is such that physics must look very deeply, to principles logically prior to physical law itself. Quantum measurement is one such instance. This article does just this.
Prof. Gregg S Jaeger
Boston University
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This page is a summary of: Grounding the randomness of quantum measurement, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0238.
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