There is No Quantum World

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18400v2
• Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:49:22 GMT
• Title: There is No Quantum World
• Authors: Jeffrey Bub,
• Abstract summary: I outline a neo-Bohrian interpretation of quantum mechanics.<n>I show how von Neumann's work on infinite direct products provides a theoretical framework that deflates the measurement problem.
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• Abstract: I outline a neo-Bohrian interpretation of quantum mechanics -- a view of quantum mechanics that accords with the core insights in Bohr's thinking, with a twist that justifies the prefix `neo.' In a second part of the paper, I show how von Neumann's work on infinite direct products provides a theoretical framework that deflates the measurement problem and justifies Bohr's insistence on the primacy of classical concepts.

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