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Article: Many-Worlds Hypothesis
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Many-worlds Hypothesis
One of the fundamental interpretive problems of quantum theory arises from the fact that from any two or more states for a system one can create another state, their
superposition
(mathematically, a linear combination). Let
s
and
s
́
be possible states for a system, corresponding to two different values,
k
and
k
́
respectively, for the observable,
O.
(That is, they are mutually orthogonal eigenstates of
O.
) Their superposition, which is another possible state for the system, is denoted by
s
+
s
́
. According to the standard interpretation of quantum theory, a system in the state
s
+
s
́
does not have the value
k
for
O,
nor the value
k
...
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