{"id":2381,"date":"2009-07-27T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T01:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2009-07-27T18:18:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T01:18:03","slug":"seeing-the-kingdom-of-god-on-the-arxiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/07\/27\/seeing-the-kingdom-of-god-on-the-arxiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Kingdom of God on the arXiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new entry in the best title every contest, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0907.4152\">arXiv:0907.4152<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Born Again<br \/>\nAuthors: Don N. Page<br \/>\nAbstract: A simple proof is given that the probabilities of observations in a large universe are not given directly by Born&#8217;s rule as the expectation values of projection operators in a global quantum state of the entire universe. An alternative procedure is proposed for constructing an averaged density matrix for a random small region of the universe and then calculating observational probabilities indirectly by Born&#8217;s rule as conditional probabilities, conditioned upon the existence of an observation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WWJD?  Not quantum Born&#8217;s rule, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new entry in the best title every contest, arXiv:0907.4152: Born Again Authors: Don N. Page Abstract: A simple proof is given that the probabilities of observations in a large universe are not given directly by Born&#8217;s rule as the expectation values of projection operators in a global quantum state of the entire universe. An &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/07\/27\/seeing-the-kingdom-of-god-on-the-arxiv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seeing the Kingdom of God on the arXiv&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,50,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-title-ever","category-off-the-deep-end","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}