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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2003 54(3):475-500; doi:10.1093/bjps/54.3.475
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Relativistic Quantum Becoming

Wayne C. Myrvold1

1 Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. wmyrvold{at}uwo.ca

In a recent paper, David Albert has suggested that no quantum theory can yield a description of the world unfolding in Minkowski spacetime. This conclusion is premature; a natural extension of Stein's notion of becoming in Minkowski spacetime to accommodate the demands of quantum nonseparability yields such an account, an account that is in accord with a proposal which was made by Aharonov and Albert but which is dismissed by Albert as a ‘mere trick’. The nature of such an account is clarified by an extension to a relativistic quantum context of David Lewis' picture of objective chances evolving in time.

1 Introduction

2 Classical relativistic becoming

3 Relativistic quantum becoming, without collapse

4 Relativistic quantum becoming, with collapse

5 Objective chance, conditional probability, and definite properties

6 The nature of the wave function

7 Conclusion


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