Acquisition of Information is Achieved by the Measurement Process in Classical and Quantum Physics

dc.creatorRocchi, Paolo
dc.creatorPanella, Orlando
dc.date2007-10-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:19:35Z
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dc.descriptionNo consensus seems to exist as to what constitutes a measurement which is still considered somewhat mysterious in many respects in quantum mechanics. At successive stages mathematical theory of measure, metrology and measurement theory tried to systematize this field but significant questions remain open about the nature of measurement, about the characterization of the observer, about the reliability of measurement processes etc. The present paper attempts to talk about these questions through the information science. We start from the idea, rather common and intuitive, that the measurement process basically acquires information. Next we expand this idea through four formal definitions and infer some corollaries regarding the measurement process from those definitions. Relativity emerges as the basic property of measurement from the present logical framework and this rather surprising result collides with the feeling of physicists who take measurement as a myth. In the closing this paper shows how the measurement relativity wholly consists with some effects calculated in QM and in Einstein's theory.
dc.descriptionPrepared for : Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations - 4 (QTFR-4), Vaxjo, Sweden, 6-11 June 2007. To be published by the American Institute of Physics in the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Talk presented by Paolo Rocchi
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5386
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5386
dc.identifierAIP Conf. Proc. -- December 3, 2007 -- Volume 962, pp. 206-214. ISBN:978-0-7354-0479-3, ISSN: 0094-243X
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2827305
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/174560
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectInformation Theory
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleAcquisition of Information is Achieved by the Measurement Process in Classical and Quantum Physics
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