A Time-Symmetric Resolution of the Einstein’s Boxes Paradox

Michael B Heaney

doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0656.v1

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A Time-Symmetric Resolution of the Einstein’s Boxes Paradox

Michael B Heaney^*

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Symmetry 2022, 14(6), 1217. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14061217

Submitted:

25 July 2021

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29 July 2021

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Abstract

The Einstein’s Boxes paradox was developed by Einstein, de Broglie, Heisenberg, and others to demonstrate the incompleteness of the Copenhagen Formulation of quantum mechanics. I explain the paradox using the Copenhagen Formulation. I then show how a Time-Symmetric Formulation of quantum mechanics resolves the paradox in the way envisioned by Einstein and de Broglie. Finally, I describe an experiment that can distinguish between these two formulations.

Keywords:

quantum foundations

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time-symmetric

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Einstein’s boxes

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Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR)

Subject:

Physical Sciences - Acoustics

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