Roads to the past: how to go and not to go backward in time in quantum theories

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Title
Roads to the past: how to go and not to go backward in time in quantum theories
Journal
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Author(s)
López Cristian
ISSN
1879-4912 (print)
1879-4920 (electronic)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
05/2019
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
9
Number
2
Language
english
Abstract
In this article I shall defend, against the conventional understanding of the matter, that two coherent and tenable approaches to time reversal can be suitably introduced in standard quantum mechanics: an “orthodox” approach that demands time reversal to be represented in terms of an anti-unitary and anti-linear time-reversal operator, and a “heterodox” approach that represents time reversal in terms of an unitary, liner time-reversal operator. The rationale shall be that the orthodox approach in quantum theories assumes a relationalist metaphysics of time, according to which time reversal is nothing but motion reversal. But, when one shifts gears and turn to a substantivalist metaphysics of time the heterodox approach to time reversal in quantum mechanics comes up in a more natural way.
Keywords
Time reversal, Metaphysics of time, Substantivalism, Relationalism, Quantum theories
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