Is the Copenhagen interpretation inapplicable to Quantum Cosmology?
arXiv:1809.09554 · doi:10.3390/universe6090128
Abstract
It is generally accepted that the Copenhagen interpretation is inapplicable to quantum cosmology, by contrast with the many worlds interpretation. I shall demonstrate that the two basic principles of the Copenhagen interpretation, the principle of wholeness and the principle of complementarity, do make sense in quantum gravity, since we can judge about quantum gravitational processes in the Very Early Universe by their vestiges in our macroscopic Universe. I shall present the extended phase space approach to quantum gravity and show that it can be interpreted in the spirit of the Everett's `relative states' formulation, while there is no contradiction between the `relative states' formulation and the mentioned basic principles of the Copenhagen interpretation.
23 pages, no figures, the version of the paper that has been published in the journal Universe
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