Dynamics & Predictions in the Co-Event Interpretation

TL;DR

This paper explores the dynamical and predictive mechanisms of the co-event interpretation of quantum mechanics, a realist approach that assigns a single real co-event to explain quantum phenomena and classical emergence.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for expressing the dynamics and predictions of histories theories within the co-event interpretation, advancing its theoretical development.

Findings

Proposes methods to formulate dynamics in the co-event framework

Provides insights into how classicality emerges from quantum histories

Lays groundwork for further development of co-event predictive models

Abstract

Sorkin has introduced a new, observer independent, interpretation of quantum mechanics that can give a successful realist account of the 'quantum microworld' as well as explaining how classicality emerges at the level of observable events for a range of systems including single time 'Copenhagen measurements'. This 'co-event interpretation' presents us with a new ontology, in which a single 'co-event' is real. A new ontology necessitates a review of the dynamical & predictive mechanism of a theory, and in this paper we begin the process by exploring means of expressing the dynamical and predictive content of histories theories in terms of co-events.