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2003

Decoherence, Einselection, and the Quantum Origins of the Classical

Wojciech H. Zurek

Argues that classical-looking outcomes emerge from quantum mechanics through the environment continuously monitoring a system, not through any new physical law at measurement.

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'Relative State' Formulation of Quantum MechanicsHugh Everett III, 1957Argues that the wavefunction never collapses at all — every measurement outcome occurs, in a branch of the universal wavefunction relative to which the observer finds themselves.

Filed under Quantum Mechanics in Physics.