Time-Symmetric Resolutions of the Renninger Negative-Result Paradoxes
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04018v1
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 21:09:29 GMT
- Title: Time-Symmetric Resolutions of the Renninger Negative-Result Paradoxes
- Authors: Michael B. Heaney
- Abstract summary: The 1953 and 1960 Renninger negative-result thought experiments illustrate conceptual paradoxes in the Copenhagen formulation of quantum mechanics.
I resolve both of these paradoxes by using a time-symmetric formulation of quantum mechanics.
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- Abstract: The 1953 and 1960 Renninger negative-result thought experiments illustrate
conceptual paradoxes in the Copenhagen formulation of quantum mechanics. In the
1953 paradox we can infer the presence of a detector in one arm of a
Mach-Zehnder interferometer without any particle interacting with the detector.
In the 1960 paradox we can infer the collapse of a wavefunction without any
change in the state of a detector. I resolve both of these paradoxes by using a
time-symmetric formulation of quantum mechanics. I also describe a real
experiment that can distinguish between the Copenhagen and time-symmetric
formulations.
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