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3 - The Original TI

Fundamentals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2022

Ruth E. Kastner
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, Baltimore
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This chapter reviews the original transactional interpretation as based on the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory of radiation and demonstrates how the Born Rule for the probabilities of outcomes is a direct physical consequence of the transactional formulation. The chapter also accounts for the nature of “null measurements” and applies the transactional picture to the famous two-slit experiment to gain a better understanding of what it means for the experiment to be “finished” and how transactions illuminate the appearance and disappearance of interference based on the type of measurement being performed.

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The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
A Relativistic Treatment
, pp. 44 - 64
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • The Original TI
  • Ruth E. Kastner, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907538.004
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  • The Original TI
  • Ruth E. Kastner, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907538.004
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  • The Original TI
  • Ruth E. Kastner, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907538.004
Available formats
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