A Structural Interpretation of Pure Wave Mechanics
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In the long version of his Ph.D. thesis, Hugh Everett III developed pure wave mechanics as a way of solving the quantum measurement problem faced by the standard von Neumann-Dirac collapse formulation of quantum mechanics. Pure wave mechanics, however, encounters problems of its own. I will brief review Everett‟s description in his thesis of the standard measurement problem, how pure wave mechanics solves it, and the problems pure wave mechanics itself faces; then I will explain how one might nevertheless understand pure wave mechanics as a successful physical theory given the notion of faithfulness that Everett presents at the end of his long thesis. The result is a structural interpretation of pure wave mechanics as an empirically faithful theory. The standard collapse formulation of quantum mechanics has two dynamical laws:
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