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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Fleeting thoughts: Epistemology of modality in quantum mechanics


Epistemology of quantum mechanics represents knowledge as a transition from the possibility of all future quantum states to the actuality of a single past state by means of measurement. Thus quantum mechanics involves the relevant quantitative measure both of probabilities and of actual space-time positions. The Hilbert space, which is the basic mathematical structure underlying quantum mechanics, serves to describe that common or joint quantitative measure and its transformation from a quantum system to another. This implies phenomena of entanglement, after which the parts of a quantum system can actually interact by means of their future possibilities measurable as corresponding probabilities. Thus epistemology of quantum mechanics studies the transformation between certain modalities in a quantitative and experimental way.

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