Empirical research on the radical subjective solution of the measurement problem. Does time get its direction through conscious observation?

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 863, Issue , 2006, Pages 238-259

  Bierman, Dick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Measurement problem; Retrocausality; Subjective reduction; Time's arrow

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846476598     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2388757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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