Resolution of a " Retrodiction Paradox "
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It is shown that the " retrodiction paradox " recently introduced by Peres arises not because of the fallacy of the time-symmetric approach as he claimed, but due to an inappropriate usage of retrodiction.
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Comment on “ Time asymmetry in quantum mechanics: a retrodiction paradox”
It is shown that the “retrodiction paradox” recently introduced by Peres [Phys. Lett. A 194 ( 1994) 211 arises not because of the fallacy of the time-symmetric approach as he claimed, but due to an inappropriate use of retrodiction. In a recent Letter [ 11 Peres claimed that our timesymmetric approach to quantum theory [2,3], in which retrodictions and predictions are on an equal footing, leads...
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