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quant-ph2006★ 25 cited
Quantum Physics and Human Language
James B. Hartle
Human languages employ constructions that tacitly assume specific properties of the limited range of phenomena they evolved to describe. These assumed properties are true features…
quant-ph2006★ 87 cited
Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy
Murray Gell-Mann, James Hartle
Our everyday descriptions of the universe are highly coarse-grained, following only a tiny fraction of the variables necessary for a perfectly fine-grained description. Coarse grai…
gr-qc2006★ 23 cited
Generalizing Quantum Mechanics for Quantum Spacetime
James B. Hartle
Familiar textbook quantum mechanics assumes a fixed background spacetime to define states on spacelike surfaces and their unitary evolution between them. Quantum theory has changed…