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Maaneli said:Well, here's the thing. If you decide to take unitary evolution seriously and reject the projection postulate, then you are no longer talking about standard QM. Then you are talking about a truly unitary QM theory such as deBB or MWI.
There are three statements which are mutually inconsistent:
A. The wavefunction of a system is complete, i.e. the wavefunction specifies (directly or indirectly) all of the physical properties of a system.
B. The wavefunction always evolves in accord with a linear dynamical equation (e.q. Schroedinger equation).
C. Measurements of e.g. the spin fo an electron always (or at least usually) have determinate outcomes.
If you take A + B, then that is incompatible with C. If you take B + C, then that is incompatible with A. If you take A + C, then that is incompatible with B. The resolution to A + B, is something like MWI. The resolution to B + C is linear hidden variables. The resolution to A + C is a stochastic or nonlinear QM theory like GRW stochastic collapse or nonlinear hidden variable theories.
Hope this helps.
I won't discuss A and B now, as it may take a long time, but I certainly don't need C, as it seems to contradict the Poincare recurrence theorem.