A Non-Simple and Not Completed History of Quantum Mechanics and Really Long History of Resolving the Problem of Time as a Quantum Observable

Abstract

It shortly described a far from being completed history of quantum mechanics—quantum theory of measurements. Furthermore, there was a relatively recently finished chapter of quantum mechanics which for a long time had not been resolved. This chapter is dedicated to time as a quantum observable, canonically conjugated to energy. And the mathematical reasons for its principal resolving are explained.

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Olkhovsky, V. (2014) A Non-Simple and Not Completed History of Quantum Mechanics and Really Long History of Resolving the Problem of Time as a Quantum Observable. Open Access Library Journal, 1, 1-15. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1100887.

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