Remarks on the Direction of Time in Quantum Mechanics

Meir Hemmo

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Remarks on the Direction of Time in Quantum Mechanics

Meir Hemmo

Department of Philosophy

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I argue that in the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics time has no fundamental direction. I further discuss a way to recover thermodynamics in this interpretation using decoherence theory (Zurek and Paz 1994). Albert's proposal to recover thermodynamics from the collapse theory of Ghirardi et al. (1986) is also considered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1458-1471
Number of pages	14
Journal	Philosophy of Science
Volume	70
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/377422
State	Published - Dec 2003

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