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Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein's Principle Not Reichenbach's.

Michael Silberstein1,2, William Mark Stuckey3, Timothy McDevitt4.   

Abstract

Our account provides a local, realist and fully non-causal principle explanation for EPR correlations, contextuality, no-signalling, and the Tsirelson bound. Indeed, the account herein is fully consistent with the causal structure of Minkowski spacetime. We argue that retrocausal accounts of quantum mechanics are problematic precisely because they do not fully transcend the assumption that causal or constructive explanation must always be fundamental. Unlike retrocausal accounts, our principle explanation is a complete rejection of Reichenbach's Principle. Furthermore, we will argue that the basis for our principle account of quantum mechanics is the physical principle sought by quantum information theorists for their reconstructions of quantum mechanics. Finally, we explain why our account is both fully realist and psi-epistemic.

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Keywords:  EPR correlations; Reichenbach’s Principle; Tsirelson bound; causal modelling; contextuality; locality; no preferred reference frame; no-signalling; principle explanation; quantum information theory; realist psi-epistemic; reconstructions of quantum mechanics; relativity principle; retrocausality

Year:  2021        PMID: 33467064      PMCID: PMC7829866          DOI: 10.3390/e23010114

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Entropy (Basel)        ISSN: 1099-4300            Impact factor:   2.524


  5 in total

1.  Making better sense of quantum mechanics.

Authors:  N David Mermin
Journal:  Rep Prog Phys       Date:  2018-09-20

2.  Why the Tsirelson Bound? Bub's Question and Fuchs' Desideratum.

Authors:  William Stuckey; Michael Silberstein; Timothy McDevitt; Ian Kohler
Journal:  Entropy (Basel)       Date:  2019-07-15       Impact factor: 2.524

3.  A New Class of Retrocausal Models.

Authors:  Ken Wharton
Journal:  Entropy (Basel)       Date:  2018-05-26       Impact factor: 2.524

4.  Re-Thinking the World with Neutral Monism:Removing the Boundaries Between Mind, Matter, and Spacetime.

Authors:  Michael Silberstein; William Stuckey
Journal:  Entropy (Basel)       Date:  2020-05-14       Impact factor: 2.524

  5 in total
  2 in total

1.  On Explaining Quantum Correlations: Causal vs. Non-Causal.

Authors:  Laura Felline
Journal:  Entropy (Basel)       Date:  2021-05-10       Impact factor: 2.524

2.  No Preferred Reference Frame at the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics.

Authors:  William Stuckey; Timothy McDevitt; Michael Silberstein
Journal:  Entropy (Basel)       Date:  2021-12-22       Impact factor: 2.524

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