Probability in Physics: Stochastic, Statistical, Quantum

In Alastair Wilson (ed.), Chance and Temporal Asymmetry. Oxford University Press (2014)
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I review the role of probability in contemporary physics and the origin of probabilistic time asymmetry, beginning with the pre-quantum case but concentrating on quantum theory. I argue that quantum mechanics radically changes the pre-quantum situation and that the philosophical nature of objective probability in physics, and of probabilistic asymmetry in time, is dependent on the correct resolution of the quantum measurement problem.

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