An alternative to test experimentally Everett's theory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01980v1
• Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 17:23:42 GMT
• Title: An alternative to test experimentally Everett's theory
• Authors: Hitoshi Inamori
• Abstract summary: It is generally accepted that Everett's theory of quantum mechanics cannot be experimentally tested. We propose an alternative to test Everett's theory which does not involve any operation on the observer.
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• Abstract: It is generally accepted that Everett's theory of quantum mechanics cannot be experimentally tested as such experiment would involve operations on the observer which are beyond our current technology. We propose an alternative to test Everett's theory which does not involve any operation on the observer. If we assume that the observer is of finite dimension, it is shown that Everett's theory leads to distinctive properties for the system being observed, and that such difference can be experimentally tested.

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