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Resolve the quantum measurement problem by reformulating measurement dynamics through the Maximum Entropy Principle and a timeless event-based framework.

September 23, 2026EntropyOpen Access

Timeless Histories: Quantum Measurement and the Maximum Entropy Principle

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ATAlexei V. TkachenkoBrookhaven National Laboratory

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Theoretical framework demonstrates quantum measurement as thermodynamic relaxation under the maximum entropy principle, indicating wave-function collapse is informational Bayesian updating.

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Resolve the quantum measurement problem by reformulating measurement dynamics through the Maximum Entropy Principle and a timeless event-based framework.
Evaluated standard measurement models, including Copenhagen cuts, von Neumann chains, and environment-induced decoherence mechanisms.
Developed a Timeless Histories framework using ordered event sequences governed by a combined Born–Boltzmann probability rule.
Decoherence drives apparatus states toward constrained maximum entropy, identifying emergent wave-function collapse with thermodynamic relaxation.
The textbook Born rule, density operators, and the projection postulate emerge as derived informational constructs, converting collapse into Bayesian conditioning without circular observer postulates.

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Alexei V. Tkachenko (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6ab39d9f4f6cc12e38b5109c https://doi.org/10.3390/e28101042

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Theoretical framework demonstrates quantum measurement as thermodynamic relaxation under the maximum entropy principle, indicating wave-function collapse is informational Bayesian updating.

Timeless Histories: Quantum Measurement and the Maximum Entropy Principle

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Timeless Histories: Quantum Measurement and the Maximum Entropy Principle

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