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Title
"Objective vs Subjective Probability," handwritten draft, 1955
Creator
Everett, Hugh
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection
Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
Rights Information
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This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Unless otherwise indicated, the original files were donated to the American Institute of Physics (https://history.aip.org/ead/20130435.html). For permission to publish, contact Jeffrey A. Barrett, representative for the Everett estate, j.barrett@uci.edu.
Description
Scope/Content: Before writing a first draft of the long thesis, Hugh Everett wrote three short papers, often refered to as his minipapers, for John Wheeler to review. This minipaper, called "Objective vs. Subjective Probability," presents an early formulation of the quantum measurement problem in terms of a conflict between subjective and objective probabilities. Everett ultimately provided a much clearer formulation of the measurement problem in terms of a conflict between different state attributions in the long thesis. The structure of the experimental setup, however, is similar. There are two versions of this minipaper. The present document is an early handwritten draft. It was found in a file labeled "Early drafts," among Everett's papers.
Scope/Content: This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne, in a file labelled "Early drafts."
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8862br26
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1332
Language
English
eng
Subject
Everett, Hugh III
Quantum mechanics
Pure wave mechanics
Wheeler, John A.
Relation
Hugh Everett III Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Related Materials

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