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Title
John Bell preprint, "On the Hypothesis that the Schroedinger Equation is Exact," with Hugh Everett comments
Creator
Bell, John S.
Contributor
Everett, Hugh, annotator
Date Created and/or Issued
1971-72
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: In 1971, the CERN physicist and philosopher of physics John Bell wrote a paper concerning non-collapse theories of quantum mechanics, including sections on both David Bohm's theory and Hugh Everett's theory. The paper would be published much later, in revised form, as "Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists" in Bell's collection of essays "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics" (1987). Everett annotated (critically) the portions of the 1971 preprint that directly concerned his own theory. This document is the preprint, with Everett's handwritten marginalia.
Scope/Content: This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne.
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8599zf7s
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1250
Language
English
eng
Subject
Everett, Hugh III
Bell, John S.
Quantum mechanics
Philosophy of science
Relative states, branches, and worlds
Relation
Hugh Everett III Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Related Materials

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