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Quantum Mechanics and 3N-Dimensional Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Bradley Monton
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Abstract

I maintain that quantum mechanics is fundamentally about a system of N particles evolving in three-dimensional space, not the wave function evolving in 3N-dimensional space.

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The Dimensions of Spacetime
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 73 , Issue 5: Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meeting of The Philosophy of Science Association. Part II: Symposia Papers. Edited by Miriam Solomon , December 2006 , pp. 778 - 789
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Footnotes

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I thank Craig Callender, Michael Dickson, Dien Ho, and Peter Lewis for helpful comments.

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