Symmetry-breaking vacuum and state vector reduction

Foundations of Physics 5 (2):371-373 (1975)
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It is argued by means of analogy with certain irreversible processes that a symmetry-violating vacuum need not necessarily be explained by a special cosmic initial condition

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10.1007/bf00717451

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