Quantum cosmology and the emergence of a classical world
arXiv:gr-qc/9308025
Abstract
This paper gives an elementary introduction to some of the conceptual problems of quantum cosmology. Contents: 1. Why quantum cosmology? 2. Time in quantum gravity 3.Decoherence and the recovery of the Schrodinger equation 4. The direction of time
19 pages, LATEX, report ZU-TH 24/93, figure can be obtained from the author (To appear in the FESt-Proceedings on the concepts of space and time, edited by E. Rudolph and I.-O. Stamatescu (Springer 1993))