On peaceful coexistence: Is the collapse postulate incompatible with relativity?

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 435-466

  Myrvold, Wayne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fleming; Maudlin; Peaceful coexistence; Quantum theory; Relativity; State vector reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036741651     PISSN: 13552198     EISSN: 18792502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8486(02)00004-3     Document Type: Note

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