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The Dead-Alive Physicist Gedankenexperiment Debunked
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Abstract
We refute a recently proposed thought experiment namely the Dead-Alive Physicist (DAP) whose authors claim it to be the falsification of the von Neumann interpretation in Quantum Mechanics. We discover major misunderstandings and flaws in their model and our justification serves the purpose of disregarding further claims and assertions made in the paper at various stages. Thus, in yet another situation, it is proven that the formalism advanced by von Neumann is non-trivial and non-falsifiable.
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Quantum Superposition, Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, State Vector Reduction, Measurement Problem, von Neumann Interpretation
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Pushp, A. (2022). The dead-alive physicist gedankenexperiment debunked. Quantum Physics Letters, 11(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.18576/qpl/110101
A. Pushp, “The dead-alive physicist gedankenexperiment debunked,” Quantum Physics Letters, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1–7, 2022, doi: 10.18576/qpl/110101.
Pushp A. The dead-alive physicist gedankenexperiment debunked. Quantum Physics Letters. 2022;11(1):1–7. doi:10.18576/qpl/110101.
Pushp, A. (2022), ‘The dead-alive physicist gedankenexperiment debunked’, Quantum Physics Letters, 11(1), pp. 1–7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.18576/qpl/110101.
Pushp, Amal. “The Dead-alive Physicist Gedankenexperiment Debunked.” Quantum Physics Letters, vol. 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1–7. https://doi.org/10.18576/qpl/110101.
Pushp, Amal. “The Dead-alive Physicist Gedankenexperiment Debunked.” Quantum Physics Letters 11, no. 1 (2022): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.18576/qpl/110101.
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