On the paper "Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself"

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07312v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:33:55 GMT
• Title: On the paper "Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself"
• Authors: Antonio Bernal
• Abstract summary: We prove that either quantum theory cannot be universally applied, even to macroscopic systems. We give a concise description of the paper's result, and expose a detail in the proof.
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• Abstract: In the paper "Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself" by D. Frauchiger and R. Renner an atempt is made at proving a "no-go theorem" that states that either quantum theory cannot be universally applied, even to macroscopic systems, or some very intuitive properties concerning recursive reasoning and uniquenes of physical values must be false. In this paper, we give a concise description of the paper's result, and expose a detail in the proof.

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